Northern light Photo

Photographer’s Note

My first time this far up north. Came back to the hostel in the beginning of the evening. Beautiful night - stars shining all over the sky. Suddenly I saw this green light, moving across the sky. A fantastic scenery - northern light!
I had no tripod, so I had to find something to put my camera on to get this! Found a concrete circle at the bottom of a drying rack. But I had to put something under the lense to get the lens up. All I had was my gloves. I took the one glove off, and put it under the camera. I had to take som shots to get the rigth one. As you can see, each shot took 30 seconds. And when I had taken 4 shots, I couldn´t feel my fingers any more. The temperature was almost minus 20 degrees celcius, and a quite windy. The fingers where gone... The next 30 minutes I couldn´t feel anything. And then I discovered that I had forgotten to change the white-balance from my last indoor-pictures just before...So the colors where totally wrong.
After all, my fingers where finally back - and I HAD to get a picture of this scenery.
This time I kept the gloves on...

Wandering_Dan, jusninasirun, bizsu, harras2000, angela926, Leilani has marked this note useful

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Wandering_Dan (3297) 2007-12-19 9:00

Hello, Per -

I'm not surprised you were willing to freeze your fingers to get a great picture; that's what photographers do. I am amazed that you managed a 30-second exposure with no star trail. (Or maybe it takes a couple of minutes for trails to show?) Anyway, it is a fantastic shot, and you are fortunate to have spotted the WB setting in time to get it right. Good positioning of the town, too; it gives a sense of scale and location.

Regards,
Dan

jusninasirun (10213) 2007-12-19 9:09

Beautiful Per ! Even the stars sparkle in the sky. I've never seen a cloud this green but sure worth your effort. Thanks for putting here on TE.
Best regards,
Jusni

bizsu (1011) 2007-12-19 9:18

Hi Per,
Wow ! Beautiful photo. Very nice colours, good compo, POV. TFS.
Regards, Zsú

harras2000 (708) 2007-12-19 9:22

Hello Per,

a very beautifull shot of te Northern lights at Greenland.

Very strong colours.

Thank you for sharing,

Daniel

angela926 (1882) 2007-12-19 10:37

Hello Per,
WOW! fantastic capture, the colors are incredible. very beautiful! good composition and pov.
Angela

Leonie (8647) 2007-12-19 11:47

Hi there, wow this phenomenon is really impressive! I'd love to see it once! Nice to have included the houses in the picture as they give a scale!
Well done, Léonie

Ireneusz1970 (466) 2007-12-19 14:32

fantastique colours & view
Irek

Leilani (1371) 2007-12-19 17:53

Lovely! You are very lucky to see the lights! (and still have your fingers ;-) ) Great resourcefulness to get this shot. Rgds, Leilani

jellianne (242) 2007-12-20 1:09

What a great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a big northern lights fan! I went all the way to tromso a few years ago just to see if i could see northern lights and I did. IT was the most amazing form of nature one can experience. I had no idea how to capture the lights using my crappy camera at the time. And i was too busy screaming off my lungs!!
love your notes about this picture, glad your fingers are OK!! :D

claudees (490) 2009-03-09 5:47 [Comment]