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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on October 07, 2015, 22:43:33
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I hope Bjørn J. has been out shooting tonight, because this must have been truly spectacular up in northern Norway. It wasn't at all bad here in Scotland . . .
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Wow, beautiful, magical colors.
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Lovely David!
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Indeed not bad at all!
It was a fine display, with better colours than we got while in Reine.
The capture is also great, I like the sharp, silhouetted foreground framing the aurora.
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That's a good one, Dave, with lovely colours. I also like the silhouttes framing the aurora.
I was out tonight for a few hours, I came home 10 minutes ago. And, yes, it was quite intense activity in the sky :)
I'll post some later.
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Thats something we miss further south, greAT
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Thanks, everyone, for your comments, but I'm sure that what Bjørn posts will wash these away. Still, it is interesting and fun to try to catch the aurora this far south. The sky goes green and purple and stays that way - quite stable - for longish periods, but the more interesting effects which are worth photographing, are very brief and elusive - perhaps 2 or 3 minutes in a whole hour. Last night I was out from 7pm until 1am and only got around a dozen worthwhile images. The best effects were early in the evening when tall, pale columns of green and purple shimmered across the sky, but the sky was much too bright and there was no contrast between the aurora and the rest of the sky. I tried, but those shots are a failure; my best images came between 11pm and midnight.
I'm shooting these with the 28mm f2 AIS - the hard infinity-stop is useful, and closed down to f4 it is very, very sharp with just a little vignetting in the corners.
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++++++!
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Wow, that's a great shot!
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Outworldly. Reminds me of this
Austrian German Guru Painter from the 19th Century. Will recall the name later
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
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Beautiful indeed
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Thank you - Andrew, Joergen, Frank and Elsa - for your generous comments; much appreciated.
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Great image Dave, I like the bold colours and framing.
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Thanks, JA.
It's good fun, as I said, but Bjørn J. is in the right place and is a master of this subject. He taught me how to process these images.
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Impressive night sky
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Dave, why do you think it's less spectacular? The other-worldly color of the sky is SPECTACULAR for sure!
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Thanks, Armando and Akira.
Akira - I am pleased with the image (and a few others) and certainly the colours are very nice, but I myself couldn't describe the shot as spectacular; that word belongs to Bjørn J. and his exciting images shot in the high Arctic.
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Akira - I am pleased with the image (and a few others) and certainly the colours are very nice, but I myself couldn't describe the shot as spectacular; that word belongs to Bjørn J. and his exciting images shot in the high Arctic.
Yeah, well, Bjørn J is the aurora expert for sure. But I would be delightedly surprised to see the sky in this color, and you captured it, and that in your place, which should be a valuable record.