Northen Lights (What a show!)

[Comet Hunter]

Sooo, I just got back from seeing the northern lights in the NW Territory of Canada in the town of Yellowknife.

1st time capuring the northern light, let along being "right under" the corona. I used the Canon T7 with the Sigma 17-50 2.8 @ 6 sec's and ISO of 1600 but I kept it at 17mm because these things being this close, were soooo large they filled the sky from one horizon to the other so I only was able to capture a small percentage of what was overhead.

Before I spend too much time processing 100's of photo's and timelapes, I thought I would do one, then have everyone critigue my image processing.
I did not seperate the forground from the background on this one, but I may need to do that on some shots.

PS, I picked this one as #1 because you can clealy see the Big Dipper and it seemed to be anchored well with the pine trees.

Fire a way at this 1st image.

 

[AlanLichty]

Looks pretty sweet to me - not something I have shot or seen first hand before.

 

[JimFox]

Super cool Ed! Yellowknife is where I was going to go to shoot the Northern Lights until I was able to capture it multiple times in the last year or two in Wyoming and Minnesota. The advantage you get by being up in Yellowknife is the Northern Lights have a little different look because they are happening so close to you. You get them to be ribbons floating around the sky in your face.

In Wyoming and Minnesota, being not as far north the Northern Lights spread along the horizon, so one is shooting horizontal. They can go off overheard, but then you just rotate the camera to shoot straight up in the sky. But the look you captured like this? I still want to capture that and I think I will still need to take a trip up to Yellowknife as weel in a few years.

As to how this looks? It looks great, I think you did a great job. It will be awesome to see more of them.

 

[xpatUSA]

Once I spent five months Oct - Feb up in the Arctic Circle (Endicott Island near Deadhorse, Alaska) and didn't ever see one aurora ... grump.