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I've been a bit hesitant about putting these up given the amount of better night shots on here from people with more know how, but oh well, here's mine lol. I caught these completely by chance. I was originally wanting a shot of the mist after a few hours shooting star trails in the opposite direction, then when I went back to the camera there were all these colours...doh!
Pretty pleased for my first try at the aurora and when I realised what was happening I got all giddy like a school girl at a Justin Bieber concert Wish I had shot at a lower ISO though because I had my 550D cranked to 3200 for star trails and I got distracted by the aurora going on. I tried to do a bit of noise reduction in LR, but my skills are lacking in processing department and it was making the whole lot look really soft. You can see my earlier edits of the same images in my Flickr somewhere.
I also tried a pano of the milky way and the aurora, but by that time they started to fade (bottom picture). It was 6 shots then stitched together in PS CS6.
Exif is all on the picture of you click on it onto my flickr. All shot with 550D and kit 18-55 lens.
Any tips or advice for my next opportunity would be much appreciated I wanted a bit more foreground interest but I had to shoot literally outside my front door, and with my house being on a big bank and no moonlight I found it quite hard.
IMG_4632 by Peanut651, on Flickr
IMG_4638 by Peanut651, on Flickr
Untitled_Panorama1 by Peanut651, on Flickr
Pretty pleased for my first try at the aurora and when I realised what was happening I got all giddy like a school girl at a Justin Bieber concert Wish I had shot at a lower ISO though because I had my 550D cranked to 3200 for star trails and I got distracted by the aurora going on. I tried to do a bit of noise reduction in LR, but my skills are lacking in processing department and it was making the whole lot look really soft. You can see my earlier edits of the same images in my Flickr somewhere.
I also tried a pano of the milky way and the aurora, but by that time they started to fade (bottom picture). It was 6 shots then stitched together in PS CS6.
Exif is all on the picture of you click on it onto my flickr. All shot with 550D and kit 18-55 lens.
Any tips or advice for my next opportunity would be much appreciated I wanted a bit more foreground interest but I had to shoot literally outside my front door, and with my house being on a big bank and no moonlight I found it quite hard.
IMG_4632 by Peanut651, on Flickr
IMG_4638 by Peanut651, on Flickr
Untitled_Panorama1 by Peanut651, on Flickr
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