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ArcticShooter

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 17:56

I've been home for 3 weeks and been looking at the sky every night. On my last night at home, before going to work, it finally showed up. It was not so strong maybe a 2 on the k-indice. It soon got cloudy.
Used ISO 1600 and used the EF-S 10-22@10

1:Pano made from 6 images, adjusted curves, 20s and f/4@14mm
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/3210478259_19aec5bc3e_b.jpg
2: 8s, f/3.5
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/3210463439_cd4c37f6dc_b.jpg
3: 13s, f/3.5
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3210459957_b4280130d4_b.jpg
4: 25s, f/8
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/3210453059_60fcb4d626_b.jpg
5: 25s, f/5.6, Also got a meteorite in this one
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3370/3211293898_5da0f09250_b.jpg

Karl Johnston

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 18:03

Lovely wide shots, I'll have to try that sometime. I'm impressed they stitched together so well.

I can't see 3-5, there's no images in them yet.

ArcticShooter

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 18:28

Lovely wide shots, I'll have to try that sometime. I'm impressed they stitched together so well.

I can't see 3-5, there's no images in them yet.

It's OK to stitch when the light isn't very active. The other images was more active.
Wonder if others got problems to see them?
You can always check out my Flickr but that will be smaller images.

kywolftn

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 18:30

nice,

slitherjef

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 19:44

Very nice! Must have been a grand sight to see first hand!

Mguthrie

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 20:52

Very nice work! I got to visit a bunch of relatives last year near Vestkapp, and was hoping to get to Tromso too, but that didn't work out. Norway is a beautiful place to live and the people are great!

Karl Johnston

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 23:23

They're working now, I can see #5 is unique with the clouds appearing to suck the northern lights away like a tornado, hate that :D lol

troypiggo

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 23:46

Absolutely beautiful. Would love to see these with my own eyes some day.

Karl Johnston

19th of January 2009 (Mon), 23:59

What I love about the first image is the white fluffy clouds..now that is spectacular..must've been a moon to the further right, I figure.

ArcticShooter

20th of January 2009 (Tue), 00:16

nice,
Thank you

Very nice! Must have been a grand sight to see first hand!
Yes, they were very nice. The light in the pano was very slow moving. But the fjords ones where moving faster

Very nice work! I got to visit a bunch of relatives last year near Vestkapp, and was hoping to get to Tromso too, but that didn't work out. Norway is a beautiful place to live and the people are great!
You just have to visit next time :)

They're working now, I can see #5 is unique with the clouds appearing to suck the northern lights away like a tornado, hate that :D lol
The clouds turned out nice.

Absolutely beautiful. Would love to see these with my own eyes some day.
Yes you should. Plenty of places to go for this. But I waited almost 3 weeks for this so you never know when you will see it :)

What I love about the first image is the white fluffy clouds..now that is spectacular..must've been a moon to the further right, I figure.
The light to the right is from the city of Tromsø. When you see it before processing it is reddish. I maxed the curves and it turns out nice.

L.Morey

20th of January 2009 (Tue), 00:31

Just beautiful

EricL

23rd of January 2009 (Fri), 19:26

Would you be so kind as to send some lights our way?? They have been very quiet this year. Nice shots!!

jgrussell

23rd of January 2009 (Fri), 21:28

These are beautiful!

Celestron

23rd of January 2009 (Fri), 22:17

All great shots ! I noticed the last one has an Iridium Flare going throught it so you have a double catch !

mikeassk

24th of January 2009 (Sat), 00:38

Glorious!

When you see them in person do they look much like this?
Or are they different?

ArcticShooter

24th of January 2009 (Sat), 02:15

Just beautiful
Thank you

Would you be so kind as to send some lights our way?? They have been very quiet this year. Nice shots!!
I was home for 3 weeks and the weather was terrible all the time. So finally two nights before I had to go back for work this showed up. And of course now while at work the weather is perfect!

These are beautiful!
Thank you

All great shots ! I noticed the last one has an Iridium Flare going throught it so you have a double catch !
Thank you. I thought it was a meteorite :)

Glorious!

When you see them in person do they look much like this?
Or are they different?
Thank you.
I try to make them look like the original. So I lower the saturation a little. But on camera it gets more greener than natural. Could also be caused by the long exposure. I have noticed that Nikon cameras makes them way more greener and totally off in color.

SwingBopper

26th of January 2009 (Mon), 07:46

Fantastic shots. I really like #3. It looks like an alien rainbow's end.

ArcticShooter

26th of January 2009 (Mon), 08:03

Fantastic shots. I really like #3. It looks like an alien rainbow's end.
Thank you. It is supposed to be great lights tonite but I don't have the camera with me at work. But we will go out just to look :)

Synenergy52

26th of January 2009 (Mon), 17:06

soren.martensen

26th of January 2009 (Mon), 17:44

soren.martensen

26th of January 2009 (Mon), 20:14

Forgot to ask you about your HDR Pano's - do you process the individual exposures in Photomatix first and then stitch them together or do you sticth the panos and then process in Photomatix?

Sorry - just saw your answer to this on the HDR forum. :oops: So process in Photomatix and then stictch.

What stitching program do you use?

ArcticShooter

27th of January 2009 (Tue), 01:02

Those are among the most beautiful shots I have ever seen with my own eyes. Extremely nice work. <---That's an EXTREME understatement. God I gotta get one of those 10-22s. I'm surprised they stitched so well. Im guessing cause the sky is mainly filled with void? (dark)?
Thank you for your kind words.
When you do panoramas you have to think overlap all the time. Minimum 30%.
Do a metering right above the brightest area. Go to full manual and use the info from the metering. Also set manual whitebalance. It will change most of the time if you have it on auto.
I have northern lights images that are covering the image by 70% so it depends how active it is.

ArcticShooter

27th of January 2009 (Tue), 01:04

Absolutely Stunning as always Helge. Love them all.

Forgot to ask you about your HDR Pano's - do you process the individual exposures in Photomatix first and then stitch them together or do you sticth the panos and then process in Photomatix?

What stitching program do you use?

I have bookmarked you flickr page so I can follow your photos.

Forgot to ask you about your HDR Pano's - do you process the individual exposures in Photomatix first and then stitch them together or do you sticth the panos and then process in Photomatix?

Sorry - just saw your answer to this on the HDR forum. :oops: So process in Photomatix and then stictch.

What stitching program do you use?

Thank you.
I prefer CS3 for doing the stiching. I have tried other that are much faster.
But I always end up going back to CS3.

Al Horchata

27th of January 2009 (Tue), 09:24

Beautiful shots. Stunning.

ArcticShooter

27th of January 2009 (Tue), 13:50

Beautiful shots. Stunning.
Thank you. It is even better in live view.

kerrance

27th of January 2009 (Tue), 14:38

wow, i'd love to see the these. Great

hobbes2112

30th of January 2009 (Fri), 12:58

Color me jealous! One day I hope to get back up to Alaska in the winter and see them for myself.

ArcticShooter

31st of January 2009 (Sat), 01:22

wow, i'd love to see the these. Great
Thank you.
They are very nice when the light is very active. But now the sun has very low activity. So the light have been very weak and slow moving. But then I can make nice panos.

Color me jealous! One day I hope to get back up to Alaska in the winter and see them for myself.
Thank you.
Yes, you will need some luck and good weather to see it also. But it's worth the wait :)