Northern Lights
Picture taken March 18th 2010 at 8:53 p.m. Latitude: 69 ° 15'25 .81" N Longitude: 16 ° 4'47 .55" E. I used a Canon 5D Mark II with EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM. I used the following settings: f/2.8, 30s, ISO800 and 35mm. The image is composed of seven exposures and is totally 14301pixel wide and 5947 pixels high. Laser lights of a research station is visible on the mountain. The lights from the village of Andenes is visible under the Northern Lights. The challenges with this picture was to capture the northern lights over 7 exposures. The Northern Light is moving all the time and during the 30 seconds it takes to expose an image it may have moved a lot.
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mahdi maghsoudi 12 months ago
wow
Pedro Galamarra 1 year ago
Great job! It shows the work we have to make a really nice image!
Fantastic!
muliadi effendi 1 year ago
very nice...jooosshhh/...........
Marcus Cottengim 1 year ago
Alot of work for one photo, and it was completly worth it. Nice job
Hoda Rahimi 1 year ago
very nice , i hope to see it
I dream of those kind of shots and places.
martin zalba 1 year ago
very nice!
marcodelellis 1 year ago
so gorgeous! :)
Orazio Scuderi 1 year ago
Great Photo!
Art Lionse 1 year ago
Fascinating picture, very nicely executed and inspiring long contemplation! Congrats!
Jean-Marc MANGIN 1 year ago
splendid !!!
Peter Svoboda 1 year ago
beautiful and spectacular,congr.
ArnarG 1 year ago
Taking a northern light photo is usually a big no no on such a long exposure time.

Usually they move very fast and the best way to capture them is to up your ISO. You've got a 5D mark II so I wouldn't be afraid to shoot at ISO 3200 for 6 sec for the same exposure and frozen northern lights.

The best picture I've seen of the northern lights is taken with a 24mm 1.4 L at ISO 6400 and 1 sec exp.

But however rules are ment to break them and in this case you've got a stunning image anyway :)
Oystein Lunde Ingvaldsen  I think I´ll have to disagree on this one. I´ve taken thousands of northern light pictures. Usually, the auroras does NOT move very fast all the time with a lot of structure, usually it looks just like you see it in this picture. The so called "needle look" is something you might be lucky to capture only a few days a year depending on activity and weather conditions. You can get tons of structure with 30s exposure time (check out Roy´s photo with the light house), and you can get absolutely no structure at 1s exposure time.... So it´s not a big no no, it´s a big "it depends what the lights look like when you photograph it". Does it move a lot, use short exposure time. Does it not move a lot, use whatever... Totally unnecessary to get ISO grain when you don´t have to! Thumbs up for this stunning photo!

Cheers,
Øystein
christina 1 year ago
Great work, wonderful again!
amin sahebpour 1 year ago
WOW
exellent
Brano Obzera 1 year ago
Great work. I like it a lot..
Northern Lights are one of my goals for this year..
Very impressive, well made!!
/Wulff
Impressive capture, well done:)!!!
Roger Fadum 1 year ago
Impressive image and a job well done!
Charlie Packard 1 year ago
Another really wonderful success...congratulations :)
Oddmund Ihle 1 year ago
Et av våre vakreste fenomener som du har fanget på et mesterlig sett. Gratulerer!
/Oddmund
Matjaz Cater 1 year ago
Impressive capture; hoping I would be able to witness it some day... Matjaz
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Equipment
Canon 5D Mark II and EF16-35mm
Location
Andenes, Norway
Date
20100318
Tags
AURORA, NORTHERN, LIGHT, BOREALIS, SKY, NIGHT, MOON, LANDSCAPE
Unique views
40993
Comments
22
Category
Landscape
 
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