Finally some Northern lights

L.Morey wrote in post #7115137
Just beautiful

Thank you

EricL wrote in post #7173575
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!

jgrussell wrote in post #7174348
These are beautiful!

Thank you

Celestron wrote in post #7174581
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

mikeassk wrote in post #7175245
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.

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

SwingBopper wrote in post #7189450
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

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)?

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. So process in Photomatix and then stictch.

What stitching program do you use?

Synenergy52 wrote in post #7193014
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.

soren.martensen wrote in post #7193294
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.

soren.martensen wrote in post #7194215
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. 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.

Beautiful shots. Stunning.

Al Horchata wrote in post #7197433
Beautiful shots. Stunning.

Thank you. It is even better in live view.

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

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

kerrance wrote in post #7199487
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.

hobbes2112 wrote in post #7221020
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