My first time lapse of the Aurora

Time lapse containing 465 images. Put together in Lightroom 3
Camera: Canon EOS 5D mkII
Lenses: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L II and Samyang 14mm f/2.8
Location: Rekvik on the island of Kvaløya outside the city of Tromsø in Norway

Link to Youtube
Link to Vimeo
Let me know what you think of my first attempt?

Thank you for sharing!

I hope someday I will actually witness this with my own eyes!

Judging from your stills it is great, I don't know if YouTube compresses the video but it wasn't very clear. Maybe the Vimeo one will be better.

Looks impressive.
How long are the exposures and what is the frame rate ?

kezug wrote in post #11642159
Thank you for sharing!

I hope someday I will actually witness this with my own eyes!

Yes it is well worth seeing

the jimmy wrote in post #11642366
Judging from your stills it is great, I don't know if YouTube compresses the video but it wasn't very clear. Maybe the Vimeo one will be better.

On my 13" screen it looks quite sharp but I think the Vimeo version is a little sharper. But you have remember there are lots of clouds moving around. The mountains and the stars seems sharp.

SteveInNZ wrote in post #11643180
Looks impressive.
How long are the exposures and what is the frame rate ?

Thank you. I varied the exposures so from 1/4s up to 3s and iso 1600 up to 3200. I just used the slideshow export function in Lightroom so each image is shown for 0.1s so that will make it 10fps?
But I guess there are some really good software to do this?

Lovely timelapse,looks clear enough to me anyway.A spectacular sight.
A lot of time and effort goes into these time lapses so well done.

the jimmy wrote in post #11642366
Judging from your stills it is great, I don't know if YouTube compresses the video but it wasn't very clear. Maybe the Vimeo one will be better.

I definetly like the Vimeo video, great job, to see the aurora is on my bucket list.
Does the aurora move too slow to shoot video? In other words, would a video seem boring because the aurora moves slow?

Very nice job! looks like it was VERY time-consuming to edit all that content! Well done.

saturn5 wrote in post #11645507
Lovely timelapse,looks clear enough to me anyway.A spectacular sight.
A lot of time and effort goes into these time lapses so well done.

Thank you. Most of my problems is the space problem on my old macbook. So I have to use the external HD all the time.

the jimmy wrote in post #11645642
I definetly like the Vimeo video, great job, to see the aurora is on my bucket list.
Does the aurora move too slow to shoot video? In other words, would a video seem boring because the aurora moves slow?

Actually the aurora moves very very fast. If you notice in the video at the end the exposure is 0.3 and shot on continuous. There is no video camera (yet) able to shoot the aurora. I tried this night to do 2x10s shots and it's so blurry and terrible even at iso3200. I know that even the high end video cameras used by TV networks are not able to nail it.

Wallace River wrote in post #11645671
Very nice job! looks like it was VERY time-consuming to edit all that content! Well done.

I have been using Lighroom 3 and it's very fast. What takes time is for the software to crunch through 500 high resolution 21Megapix of images. If I convert it to JPEG it is fast but the conversion is slow on my old soon to be retired macbook

Impressive. I wonder what the lights look like from space?

Al

Nice job, hope to see that one of these decades.

very cool!

wish i had my SLR when i was living in Nunavut. it's absolutely spectacular when viewed on Baffin Island or out near Inuvik in the NWT.

This is just beautiful - I always look forward to your aurora pictures here on POTN, but this video gives it a complete new perspective. Thank you for sharing!

I watched the YouTube one , very nice ! I like the music , what made you decide to use this type ? It went very well i think .

Thanks for your answers and doing the video. I had no idea that they were so dynamic. I'm even more determined to see one now.