Another Northern Lights

[JimFox]

The Northern Lights on May 10th lasted the whole night. It was very active dancing the night away, so there are so many choices. Each of my cameras took almost 4000 photos that night. So picking favorites is a bit hard.

I thought I would pick one out ever few days to post.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Another beautiful image Jim. Right place at the right time. This was sure your candy store.

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow - Just. Wow. Beautiful scene and reflections.

 

[Trent Watts]

Stunning Jim. Oh my 4000 photos. It is like looking at the toothpaste isle and trying to decide. (Probably a really bad analogy!).

 

[Mike Lewis]

Don't know your settings, but WAY more than we saw on the ship in Southeast Alaska. Ironic to travel all the way up there to experience worse aurora than we might have had at home. But at least my wife saw some of it. If it had been clouded over that really would have been very frustrating.

This is amazing - what kind of aperture/shutter speed did you use on this?

ML

 

[JimFox]

Don't know your settings, but WAY more than we saw on the ship in Southeast Alaska. Ironic to travel all the way up there to experience worse aurora than we might have had at home. But at least my wife saw some of it. If it had been clouded over that really would have been very frustrating.

This is amazing - what kind of aperture/shutter speed did you use on this?

ML

Thanks Mike,

The settings don't really affect how well the Northern Lights are seen as long it's exposed properly. The Aurora was dancing consistently, so I chose to go with a faster shutter speed since I wanted a timelapse. I decided that 5 secs would be fast enough to capture the movement, and it was. So at f1.8 that gave me an ISO of 800 to expose properly.

This was captured with the Nikon Z8 and the Sigma 14m f1.4. I set it to f1.8 to match my other Sigma 14mm which is a f1.8. It's nice with multiple cameras to keep all of the settings the same.

Yeah, it's so weird how you guys didn't see the northern lights better since you were up in Alaska. Did you take any photos of it?

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Beautiful, Jim. Keep them coming.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Thanks Mike,

The settings don't really affect how well the Northern Lights are seen as long it's exposed properly. The Aurora was dancing consistently, so I chose to go with a faster shutter speed since I wanted a timelapse. I decided that 5 secs would be fast enough to capture the movement, and it was. So at f1.8 that gave me an ISO of 800 to expose properly.

This was captured with the Nikon Z8 and the Sigma 14m f1.4. I set it to f1.8 to match my other Sigma 14mm which is a f1.8. It's nice with multiple cameras to keep all of the settings the same.

Yeah, it's so weird how you guys didn't see the northern lights better since you were up in Alaska. Did you take any photos of it?

Ok good info. yes, I did take some shots, I will post one shot soon, but very poor quality compared to what you have here. But it was not very bright and hard to go long on shutter speed on the boat. I also only had my f/4 lens with me as the f/2 Laowa was going to be the 4th lens to bring and I just didn't have the room.

ML

 

[M_J_Helin]

Nice.

Ps: Was this your first time seeing auroras?

 

[JimFox]

Nice.

Ps: Was this your first time seeing auroras?

Thank you Matti.

Not my first time. My first Aurora was about 3 years ago when I started to switch going to Minnesota for fall colors. So I have been catching it in the fall.

So this is #5 or 6 for me. But it's the first time it was strong enough that I was able to see it overhead. All of the previous times it's been on the horizon only.

 

[Jon Bev]

Fantastic colour show, congrats

 

[JimFox]

Fantastic colour show, congrats

Thanks so much Jon!