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.
#Aurora #TimeLapse #Photography #Senja #LumixS5II #SigmaPhoto
And I wanna plug my Norway photo tours for 2025 while I'm here.
My annual Norway Photo Tour runs in Feb:
https://ewenbell.com/itinerary-norway.php
Plus a new "Polar Nights" aurora chase for January. Bit more hard core that one:
https://ewenbell.com/itinerary-polar.php
#PhotographyWorkshop #PhotoTour #ArcticNorway #Auroras #NorthernLights #LandscapePhotography
Join us for 14 days of winter wonderland and dedicated aurora chasing in Arctic Norway. Charming fishing cottages and dramatic coastal scenery will be your reward for this adventure. A unique and inspiring immersion into the rugged landscapes of Tromso, Senja & Lyngen, with the help two professional Photographers and a private chef. This is the best aurora chase in the Arctic, with the best people, the best locations and the best chances of getting great shots of auroras and the landscapes.
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!
#Aurora #Photography #Tromsø #EwenTube #YouTube #NorthernLights
@ewen
Re-boosting this - for probably obvious reasons!
(So many fingers crossed for here tonight...)
Hoping see a lot of Aurora action in the feed tonight!
@ewen
I was trying to remember as many of the technique tips as possible from your video - the display in Seattle was pretty spectacular...
https://mastodon.me.uk/@coprolite9000/112421433832595597
(I never expected to see the aurora borealis so clearly - while wearing a T-shirt, in a spring Seattle heatwave!)
Attached: 1 image Minimal tweaking - here's a quick #timelapse of the spectacular #aurora from Capitol Hill, #Seattle... (Yes, I was very lucky to get access to a roof...) #aurora #auroraBorealis #wawx
What a marvellous result and what a moment of global joy. At a time when we are very short on joy. Thrilled you got this capture and this moment.
We're in rural Victoria (Australia) running a workshop and I shared this post with our workshop group and everyone is like "No way that can be downtown Seattle???" and what a marvellous moment to share :)
@ewen
Heh - thank you again!
I felt it would be a huge contrast to the familiar, gloriously desolate frozen landscapes to get a busy city into view as the backdrop - and was overjoyed at how much subtle human detail there is, buzzing away. Aircraft, people on roofs, the ferries whizzing past in Puget Sound...
And yep, I absolutely needed that. I've been utterly stressed out with, well, *everything* lately. Seeing people bond over this global, celestial experience - wonderful...
Photo Ewen 📷
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