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Shot in Yellowknife last week, with EM1ii and PL8-18, exposure: 8s, F2.8, ISO1600



the little sensor handled very well!





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Plus one shot on the surreal Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park
Plus one shot on the surreal Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park







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Love these, fantastic images!
 
Lovely images!

cheers,

Ramesh
 
Mmm, hot chocolate, sign me up!

Tom
 
And, BTW, gorgeous photos. Would have been quite surreal to have the teepee, or sky in just the right position, to show the aurora emanating for the top of the teepee!

Well done!

Tom
 
.. but mostly because I learned the hard way that you shouldn't use the back screen to judge your exposure. You seem to have got it right.

I'll get another crack at it in a couple of weeks, hopefully I'll have learned from my mistakes.
 
Gorgeous! Well done.
 
Excellent images. Having an extra Stop or two on an UWA certainly helps for the Aurora.
 
These are fantastic! Thanks for sharing...

Cheers
 
The first image seems to have more purple above the green light.

I say this because I just had my first experience in Iceland three weeks ago. With the same sky, my f1.8 lens yielded more purple than my friend's who used f3.5 lens. My camera is EM5.2 and his EM10.2.

Wonder why f1.8 sees more purple?
 
I work in the tourism sector in Canada and have seen many examples of aurora borealis in the north photos. These are some of the best I've come across, seriously well done.
 
DLGW said:
.. but mostly because I learned the hard way that you shouldn't use the back screen to judge your exposure. You seem to have got it right.

I'll get another crack at it in a couple of weeks, hopefully I'll have learned from my mistakes.
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I have done some milky way shot before but first time doing (seeing) aurora, the difficult thing was to focus the infinity while keeping some foreground in focus, I always think this is one of the advantage of m43 sensors that even at 2.8 many of the foreground are still in focus.
 
Jazzychu said:
The first image seems to have more purple above the green light.

I say this because I just had my first experience in Iceland three weeks ago. With the same sky, my f1.8 lens yielded more purple than my friend's who used f3.5 lens. My camera is EM5.2 and his EM10.2.

Wonder why f1.8 sees more purple?
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from what I saw it's more about the appearance of the aurora itself, I shot with same settings the other night but many of the time the aurora was only green, tour guide told us that the chances of seeing purple/pink are much lower than seeing plain green.
 
Oboyle said:
I work in the tourism sector in Canada and have seen many examples of aurora borealis in the north photos. These are some of the best I've come across, seriously well done.
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Compliments from the industry! :) i'm well beyond flattered.
 
your trip to Yellowknife was early October. At about what time did you see the Northern Lights? Your pictures indicate GMT which is hard to convert to local time.

I am asking for my future trip to Yellowknife. I hope the sighting was not until mid-night.
 
Jazzychu said:
your trip to Yellowknife was early October. At about what time did you see the Northern Lights? Your pictures indicate GMT which is hard to convert to local time.

I am asking for my future trip to Yellowknife. I hope the sighting was not until mid-night.
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I was there on 5th, 6th and 7th Oct (night), the probability was highest around 12am - 1am (which was the time I got the shots). It was more about luck, on the first night it started with rain and clouds but it cleared up at around 12am and I got the shots, on the other 2 days the skies were clear in the evening however got very cloudy around midnight and didn't really get any good shots.

Tour company told us the best to see would be Sep instead of Oct as the weather becomes more fluctuated by then. Hope these helps, my advice is to stay at least 3 nights and maximise the chance to see it.
 
Thanks.

When I was in Iceland, we also had busy schedule during the day. My problem was after the day trip, my battery (total 3) pretty much ran out. I had to charge one right at dinner time which gave me roughly 2 hours of juice to work with. We had 4 nights out of 7 to be able to photograph, but not all nights are good either. I only stayed up to 11PM so I can get up early for the next day.
 
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