Slowly working my way through a few terabytes of timelapses shot in Feb and March.
Just after dinner we saw auroras poking through gaps in the cloud. I setup my first camera outside the rental cabin, pointed across the fjord to capture the clouds rolling by.
For the next hour I was helping my FIL shoot the more active auroras in the east. And didn't realise that my cloud timelapse was turning into an aurora timelapse :) Huge win.
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And I wanna plug my Norway photo tours for 2025 while I'm here.
My annual Norway Photo Tour runs in Feb:
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Plus a new "Polar Nights" aurora chase for January. Bit more hard core that one:
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Just came across another favie image on my hard drive, a twilight aurora from March the 1st.
We had just setup the cameras and were about to get settled in for dinner, when I noticed a little activity on the horizon. I love the way a little twilight (or moonlight) changes the colour palette when capturing the Northern Lights.
Just added a new video that looks at how the human eye sees the Northern Lights, versus our cameras.
Yes they are different, and there's a good reason for that – It's not just that photographers have a tendency to crank the saturation slider:)
TL;DR = The real thing is marvellous, don't need to fake it up with that saturation slider!
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@ewen
Really interesting, thank you - with gorgeous photos and timelapse video!
I've only ever seen the aurora once - through a window on a transatlantic flight. With my eyes, I could barely see ghostly, colourless shapes shifting against the stars - I'd always wondered just how comparable that was to a 'proper' experience. (Which I now want to see even more than before!)
Below: 4 sec at f/4, ISO 12800, blanket blocking light from cabin and a *lot* of luck. (And saturation set to default...)
What a magical moment! Superb that you grabbed a shot out the window and this image is just so full of beauty.
Humans, flying in thin air inside a tin can with flames coming out one end, capturing a 4sec exposure on a digital sensor made from precious metals and sand. What a time to be alive!
Thanks for sharing that one :)
@ewen
Thank you - yep, it definitely felt like an alliance of unearthly, scientific magic at the time...
(I've taken far too many photos looking out of planes. Seeing people in window seats keeping the window blind permanently closed? Oh no.)
Also, thanks for having a watch and boosting the "retention rate" on my video today :) I'm pushing my luck with the algorithm to post 19min videos, I know it.
Photo Ewen 📷
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