Forum: Photography


Subject: Night Shot - Northern Lights

Wivelrod opened this issue on Apr 03, 2005 ยท 12 posts


Wivelrod posted Sun, 03 April 2005 at 5:08 AM

I know we are encouraged to enter images taken in the month of the challenge. Unfortunately the challenge timing sucks (hehe) as I took this picture last month on an adventure trip to Iceland!! I'm itching to share this and the challenge topic this month just gave me an excuse to post it :P :P

As you can tell, I didn't exactly get the "best" shot here. I had no tripod as I couldn't take one with me, I had to rest the camera on a bonnet (or hood) of a "Super Jeep", and the wind chill was making me shiver so!!! Its a 10 Second exposure at 1600ISO (hence the horrible noise :( ) taken on a Canon 20d with a 17-85mm IS lens. We were very lucky to see Northern Lights of this magnitude, the picture just does not do it justice! The sky was effectively bright green from horizon to horizon! Even our local guides who see this sort of thing regulary was impressed :D