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Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Iceland - Northern Lights Timelapse

Iceland has it all. And they eat their horses.


Iceland - Northern Lights Timelapse from Rodrigue El Hajj on Vimeo.
Time-lapse of northern lights I took on my trip to Iceland on October 16th
You can also watch the full movie of the trip in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/160442819
Gear Used:
-Canon 6D
-Samyang 12mm f/2.8
-Vanguard Espod 203AP tripod
Thanks for watching!

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Winterscapes Norway/In the Land of the Northern Lights

Say goodbye to winter....



Winterscapes Norway from Konabyua on Vimeo.
Intended to capture the beauty of the Lofoten Islands I stayed at Svolvaer for 20 days. I was lucky to see often moderate Noordernlights the first two weeks and fantastic ones the last week!
Everything is captured between februari and march 2012. The period of 3 weeks was dicided by pure gambling on clear nightskies and much aurora. The result was 8 nights showing me beatifull aurora's. One night the lights were everywhere for hours.




In The Land Of The Northern Lights from Ole C. Salomonsen on Vimeo.
Ok folks, this is it. Here is my first video project.
It is a video of the Northern Lights created using stills (stop motion). All sequences are shot in or close to Tromsø in Northern Norway.
I have spent over 6months collecting footage for this, I have shot approx 50.000 stills to choose from in making this video. A goal for me has been to try to preserve the real-time speed of the northern lights, or come as close as possible, and present it the way I experienced it, instead of the northern lights just flashing over the sky in the blink of an eye. It may work on other time-lapse videos with fast moving clouds and sunsets etc, but with the northern lights in focus, it should be presented in it's true speed to reflect her beauty, imo. In the video I have put together a collection of slow moving auroras in the woods, over the mounatins, in the city, in the foreshore, reflected in the sea, with some of the most spectacular and strongest auroral outbreaks seen in many years. Included here is a coronal outbreak, in which I am particularly happy to present, since it is very difficult to get on stills, even worse on "film".
I got a fantastic soundtrack made for the video by local musical talent in Tromsø; Per Wollen. A Huge thanks goes to you Per obviously!

Monday, September 14, 2015

The Sky Is Awake: Aurora Borealis

Oh my. The Aurora Borealis on September 11 over Fairbanks, Alaska. Photos by Lee Petersen.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

October Lights

Once in awhile we get a display of the Northern Lights. Usually its a pale reflection of what folks are probably seeing in Alaska. On Monday we had the best display I've seen here so far. My camera can't do justice to what I was able to see with the naked eye, so I jacked up the exposure on these shots. Which revealed more than I could see with the naked eye. The color is brighter in these photos than what I actually saw, for example.

But these photos also show far less than I saw. They don't reveal the sheer extent of the clouds of light as they shifted over the night sky. There were times when they reached almost directly overhead. And these photos don't show the most amazing thing of all, the waves of light that would flicker rapidly across the sky. I've never seen that before. It was a little unsettling, or maybe I was feeling awe at a completely new experience, but there was definitely a part of my brain telling me, "Something's wrong--that can't be happening."

But most of my brain was telling me, "Wow! Are you getting this?"

I love it here. I think I know what I want engraved on my headstone: "Will wonders never cease?"

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Things I Love About This Planet: Aurora Borealis

A solar flare on Sunday caused a radiation storm which hit the earth on Tuesday morning lighting up the Aurora Borealis. We sometimes see the Northern Lights here, usually a whitish glow that swirls slowly and sometimes sends up rays of light, though some old timers have seen curtains of color. I hope to one day. This display was confined mainly to high northern latitudes.

Shetland, Great Britain

Donegal, Ireland

Fairbanks, Alaska 

Eagle River, Alaska