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Bright moonlight changes how you photograph the aurora.

With a snow-covered foreground, exposure becomes a balancing act. Too long and the snow blows out. Too short and the auroral structure is lost.

Aurora ribbons over Fairbanks, photographed under a bright moon.

I wrote more about camera settings for aurora photography here:
https://www.lwpetersen.com/learn/camera-settings-aurora-photography/

#alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights

Vertical nighttime photograph of bright green aurora ribbons sweeping diagonally across a star-filled sky above a snow-covered spruce forest in Fairbanks, Alaska. The aurora forms long, curved bands with layered strands and soft gradations of green, with faint hints of purple along the edges. The sky behind the aurora is dark blue and dotted with numerous visible stars.

Below, a dense stand of spruce trees fills the lower portion of the image. Their branches are heavily coated in thick white snow, illuminated by moonlight, giving the forest a soft, glowing appearance. The trees vary in height, with pointed tops reaching upward toward the aurora-filled sky. — Vertical nighttime photograph of bright green aurora ribbons sweeping diagonally across a star-filled sky above a snow-covered spruce forest in Fairbanks, Alaska. The aurora forms long, curved bands with layered strands and soft gradations of green, with faint hints of purple along the edges. The sky behind the aurora is dark blue and dotted with numerous visible stars. Below, a dense stand of spruce trees fills the lower portion of the image. Their branches are heavily coated in thick white snow, illuminated by moonlight, giving the forest a soft, glowing appearance. The trees vary in height, with pointed tops reaching upward toward the aurora-filled sky.

Lee Petersen

Camera Settings For Aurora Photography – How to Take Great Northern Lights Photos

What are the right aperture, shutter speed, ISO camera settings for aurora photography? How to photograph the northern lights with examples. Article 1: settings

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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com · 3 days ago

Arctic style disco lights, and the moon turned into a star.

Captured with the TT Artisan 14mm F2.8. Very compact little lens. Plenty of optical blemishes, but at this price who cares. Fun and compact. Good companion for the Lumix S9.

#EwenInNorway #Nordlys #Photography #Auroras #NorthernLights #LumixS9

An unusual moment last night when a slither of moon created a star-burst in the night. I had dialled back this lens to about F4. Icy crystals were forming on the glass, creating some nice moon-flare as well.

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Lee Petersen

@leepetersen@alaskan.social · 3 days ago

Bright moonlight changes how you photograph the aurora.

With a snow-covered foreground, exposure becomes a balancing act. Too long and the snow blows out. Too short and the auroral structure is lost.

Aurora ribbons over Fairbanks, photographed under a bright moon.

I wrote more about camera settings for aurora photography here:
https://www.lwpetersen.com/learn/camera-settings-aurora-photography/

#alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights

Lee Petersen

Camera Settings For Aurora Photography – How to Take Great Northern Lights Photos

What are the right aperture, shutter speed, ISO camera settings for aurora photography? How to photograph the northern lights with examples. Article 1: settings

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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com · 3 days ago

Was one of those nights last night. 5 hours of shooting. Hard drives are full. Left knee is killing me.

Totally worth it.

#EwenInNorway #Nordlys #Photography #Auroras #NorthernLights #CaptureOne #Lumix

My editing screen in Capture One, featuring a very loud moment from an aurora timelapse with arcing green auroras over the mountains on a moonlit night.

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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com · 3 days ago

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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com · 3 days ago

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@podfeet@chaos.social · 2 weeks ago

@spsheridan and I just arrived at the Northern Lights Village in Saariselkä, up in Lapland, Finland. We have a lovely cabin with a glass wall facing North. The only problem was that the beer from the minifridge wasn't cold enough. I found a solution.

#Finland #NorthernLights

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2 Karhu beers in focus in the foreground. The background is of a bed with a single rose on it for Valentine’s day. Out the glass window are very tall trees completely laden with snow and blue skies behind.

Facing towards the setting sun are two beers embedded in a snowbank.

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@appassionato@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

The dark season © Even Tryggstrand

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@appassionato@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

The dark season © Even Tryggstrand

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Eyeling

@eyeling@mastodon.art · 3 weeks ago

Next part of #aurora photos. Never thought I'd get to witness such a spectacle here. When the IPA (isolated proton aurora) visible in image 2 & 4 took off.... Wow. Words can't describe it. Images are in chronological order, panoramas of 8-12 images shot within 3-8 minutes beginning 21:30 UTC.
If you want to see a video of it: Someone near Stuttgart filmed that bright green burst visible in my last pic in *real time*: https://youtu.be/e19kAuC-6eU

#nightphotography #northernlights #astrophotography

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Photos of a frozen over lake on a moonless night. A bright bow of green aurora in front of another red-grewn curtain is mirrored in the ice

Green bow weakening, but a blurp of acid dust blowing of further West like a silent firework. Eastern red intensifies.

Changing location slightly. Just a few greenish spots on that northern colour curtain. Show's over? Ohh, no...

an intensely white and green burst rips open the sky, turning tourquoise before fading. Meanwhile another green bow gnaws its way from West to East on the Northern horizon.

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@eyeling@mastodon.art · 4 weeks ago

Next bunch of Jan19 #aurora pictures for #FotoMontag: I would have gone home a happy bunny just getting images like the first one. The shock front of CMEs rarely causes the most visually stunning parts of a storm (especially down here in Central Europe). But then the sky cracked like an egg and became a silent concert of color and movement.

#northernlights #nightPhotography

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a compressed, deep red curtain over an acidic green horizon. Mirrored in the icy chaos of reeds and bushes in an iced over pond

Red curtains and green spots dancing in the Northern sky, all mirrored in smooth ice

These last two images are panoramas of 8-12 single images. 15mm each, covering over 120° of horizon.

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@eyeling@mastodon.art · 3 weeks ago

#nightphotography #northernlights #astrophotography

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@leepetersen@alaskan.social · 3 weeks ago

Faint aurora bands over a moonlit and snow-covered forest in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Check out more in my aurora galleries: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis

#alaska #aurora #northernlights #auroraborealis

Wide nighttime landscape showing a snow-covered boreal forest under a pale, moonlit sky in Fairbanks, Alaska. Low shrubs and uneven snowdrifts fill the foreground, with frost-laden spruce and birch trees rising across the middle of the frame. A single taller tree stands slightly left of center, its branches heavily coated in snow. Above the treeline, faint green aurora bands stretch diagonally across the sky, blending into a soft teal and purple glow. Stars are visible through the aurora, and the moonlight gives the snow a muted silver tone, creating a quiet, subdued winter scene.

Aurora Borealis - Lee Petersen Photography

Lee Petersen offers prints and wall art from images of Alaska landscapes, aurora borealis, wildlife, glaciers, and more. Travel, Adventures, and Life in Alaska.

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@leepetersen@alaskan.social · 3 weeks ago

Faint aurora bands over a moonlit and snow-covered forest in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Check out more in my aurora galleries: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis

#alaska #aurora #northernlights #auroraborealis

Aurora Borealis - Lee Petersen Photography

Lee Petersen offers prints and wall art from images of Alaska landscapes, aurora borealis, wildlife, glaciers, and more. Travel, Adventures, and Life in Alaska.

Eyeling

@eyeling@mastodon.art · last month

Panoramas from last week's unreal #aurora event are finally done and will be posted here every #FotoMontag.
Starting with the tame ones, before the show really took off.
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photo of a small lake, completely iced over. Dead grass and bushes giving it a wild look.
From behind the horizon an angry orange light is rising, mirrored exactly by the lake's almond shape, making the whole scene look like the eye of Sauron. — photo of a small lake, completely iced over. Dead grass and bushes giving it a wild look. From behind the horizon an angry orange light is rising, mirrored exactly by the lake's almond shape, making the whole scene look like the eye of Sauron.

Orange turns to red, acid an acid green glow rising

Suddenly sky near the horizon seemed to be ripping, leaking an acid line.

Eyeling

@eyeling@mastodon.art · 4 weeks ago

#northernlights #nightPhotography

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Samer Farha

@samerfarha@mastodon.social · last year

I’ve been after this shot for a very, very long time. Taken on a meandering walk home from the bar.

Aurora + Sólfar

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Bright green aurora fill the sky with the sculpture Sólfar in the foreground.

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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com · 4 weeks ago

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Some of my favourite moments on camera with the nordlys are not with the fjords or the forests, but just shooting directly up to the sky above us and marvelling at the formations and elegance of these aurora bands.

And in this instance, the moon itself makes a cameo appearance.

#Photography #Norway #Lumix #Nordlys #Aurora #NorthernLights

Blue sky at night, with an aurora crossing the sky plus the moon shining in the midst of it all.

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