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BigRedBuster said:
Disappointed. I woke up at 3:00am and stepped out on the deck. Couldn’t see anything. 
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i didn't see the aurora with my eyes...but the phone camera set on night pictures was able to get a fairly good picture.   not as good as those that knap posted but still showed it pretty well.

 
commando said:
i didn't see the aurora with my eyes...but the phone camera set on night pictures was able to get a fairly good picture.   not as good as those that knap posted but still showed it pretty well.
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The night was slightly brighter to the north and if you looked really hard, you could see some streaks in the sky. But, if you didn’t know it was happening, you would have never noticed. 

 
commando said:
i didn't see the aurora with my eyes...but the phone camera set on night pictures was able to get a fairly good picture.   not as good as those that knap posted but still showed it pretty well.
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Yeah, that was pretty interesting that it didn't really look like much to the naked eye.  But taking pictures of it you could see it really well.

 
found out that my brother in law couldn't plant yesterday because the solar flares knocked out the GPS on the tractor.   and it looks like it might happen again


 
According to some drone fans, they think he's using a DJI Avata 2 drone, which isn't very big.

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knapplc said:
Yeah, I get what you're saying. I don't know what kind of post processing he does. Maybe @Lorewarn can explain why it looks that way?
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I'm armchairing this a little bit, but I think it's a combo of some factors:

#1 I think it's just such a surreal display and vantage point we aren't used to, and is lacking any kind of foreground element to orient us to scale or to a normal vantage point we would usually expect to see a tornado from (nearby houses, inside a car interior, etc.)

#2 I think there's some very subtle framerate 'trickery' going on. Hard to know without having the original file but if I had to guess it looks like the footage has been undercranked very slightly (playing back slower than 'real time'), and it also looks like the final video is at 30 or 48fps which feels uncanny when you're expecting 24. Similar phenomenon as the 'soap opera effect' on modern TVs.

#3 The lighting in the environment is almost too good, and exactly how you would/do try and light something like this if you were creating it with vfx. There's a ton of atmosphere and Incredibly soft diffusion from the cloud cover makes everything look a little dreamy and surreal and cinematic with no harsh highlights or shadows; this is a common compositing technique to try and blend different elements of renders together harmoniously. You can see this to some extent in this vfx breakdown from Arrival with shots that don't look all that dissimilar - 



 
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