Did OP take this photo? It’s amazing!! How boring the rest of the world must seem to people with such sky.
Sky in Reykjavík right now:
Ahh… just like our skies in Moscow.
Not OP.
Three cheers to whomever.
Had my own chance a month ago, and they are a pain to get a good photo of without a proper camera. Thats the best i had from a particularly strong one according to some locals. Most other pics are just to “moved”. Best advice when using mobile seems to be to set for night mode/long exposure, make one or two attempts, don’t even bother with video unless is brighter then streetlamps and then drop the equipment and just take it in. Spent far to much time trying to get a national geographic class of a shots…
Well to be fair that‘s a pretty sic pic you got there
Thanks :) Ive a better one with a siluette of my partner against its backdrop, but its private. And managed to kill these damn lights.
Longer exposure is the trick, and framing the shot away from other light sources. The camera doesn’t really matter, as long as you can manually adjust things (try pro mode on a phone), and have it mounted on something that won’t shake during the exposure.
With that, aurora photos very often aren’t as they would appear to the eye because of that long exposure. They can still get reasonably bright though.
Well, picked one lf the best, most were by the line of this:
and as far as phone cameras go I’ve got a preaty good one and had it set right. True, I didn’t have any gear for stabilisation, and being somewhat intoxicated might not help my skills to shine (framing in fig. 1 should prove that point) but did it over objects, and such. Well, anyway my point is its much better watched than wasted on attempting to get a hundred pics of :)Oh yes, they’re definitely a spectacle to enjoy through your own eyes rather than a lens.
I’d say that’s a pretty decent photo still, and that’s much more accurate in how they actually look.
At this time of year, at this time of day, in that part of the world?
That ain’t the frigging Christmas star. It’s a light on the sewage treatment plant.
I want to see this in person some time! It feels so magical!
Nice
