Northern Lights tonight!
Sep 28, 2019 13:31:59 #
A few shots from Haines Alaska this morning. I am always tickled to get the north star in a shot with the northern lights.
Sep 28, 2019 14:26:46 #
Sep 28, 2019 16:26:09 #
Just did a very cold shoot in Alaska, Nikon 810, Nikor 14-24, asa800, lens wide open. Aurora peaked about 2 AM. Started at 6 second exposure, but as the Aurora intensified had to go to 3 seconds and then 1 second exposure. After 2 hours had to give up, couldn’t move my fingers. About 300 shots to go through. And lots of memories, could hear wolves off in the distance.
Sep 28, 2019 17:46:07 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
TGanner wrote:
A few shots from Haines Alaska this morning. I am always tickled to get the north star in a shot with the northern lights.
You are a terrible, terrible person to show us these absolutely beautiful and perfect shots and not have the thousand or so UHHs standing right beside you as you take these shots!
All kidding aside, the first shot is phenomenal and shows us what can be shot with a strong enough solar storm and being far enough north. There were clouds here in Colorado but a check of the limits of the solar storm showed I was missing nothing. It takes a very strong storm to push the edge down into Colorado. You took full advantage of a strong storm. Hopefully I will travel far enough north one of these days and be able to shoot some of my own shots. My hat is off to you for your shooting and sharing your absolutely beautiful aurora.
Sep 28, 2019 18:27:03 #
wdross wrote:
You are a terrible, terrible person to show us the... (show quote)
Thank you kindly. Here in Haines we also suffer the challenge of cloud cover, being at the northern edge of a temperate rain forest. Sometimes the magic works.
FYI, shots taken with a D850, ISO 1600, 14-24mm f/2.8 @ f/4 and 18mm with approximately 12 second exposures. f/4 and be there, as the saying goes, more or less.
Sep 28, 2019 19:13:48 #
Amouk Photo wrote:
Just did a very cold shoot in Alaska, Nikon 810, Nikor 14-24, asa800, lens wide open. Aurora peaked about 2 AM. Started at 6 second exposure, but as the Aurora intensified had to go to 3 seconds and then 1 second exposure. After 2 hours had to give up, couldn’t move my fingers. About 300 shots to go through. And lots of memories, could hear wolves off in the distance.
Where are the photos??????
Sep 28, 2019 21:56:51 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
TGanner wrote:
A few shots from Haines Alaska this morning. I am always tickled to get the north star in a shot with the northern lights.
It looks like the aurora limit tonight will run along the northern border of the US. Well, at least we still have your shots to drool over. Good luck for tonight's shooting.
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