Northern Light Road

Another one from last friday night. You would think you couldn't take a bad photo of the northern lights, you would think wrong. I have tons of horrible pictures of northern lights, I even have two of them with shooting stars clearly visible! Anyway, some tips for shooting the northern lights if you have them in your area:

1) Warm clothes, I mean it!
2) Tripod.
3) Brightest & widest lens you have.
4) Never go beyond 30seconds to avoid: a) startrail b) blurry smudgy northern lights. The shorter exposure time the better.
5) Highest ISO you and your camera can live with.

Zeiss F-Distagon 2.8/16 (Rollei QBM mount adapted to EF) - 15 seconds@f/2.8 , ISO3200 (distortion corrected)

PS. More aurora pics...

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  1. ★

    laverrue, Rocco's Lab, stefano foà, eMilk., and 565 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. kopi_kocok (32 months ago | reply)

    thanks for sharing! when is the best time to come and watch this beauty?

  3. Kiddi Kristjans (32 months ago | reply)

    Anytime from august till april, you basically need a black night, which you don't get during the summer in Iceland. Although there is no way to book a flight just to see the auroras, many factors have to be considered, cloudy skies for example, are extremely common. Also the Sun has to be in a good mood, we had very little aurora in 2008-2009 for example because of few sun storms. Apparantly it's getting better these days, a lot better =)

  4. tommatsch (New Gallerys"Noisy & EOS") (32 months ago | reply)

    awesome colours and light

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  5. Ingólfur B (32 months ago | reply)

    Frábær mynd. Gaman að sjá hvað þú nærð að fanga margar stjörnur líka.

  6. orvaratli (32 months ago | reply)

    Glæsileg mynd. Sé að Zeissinn er að gera góð hluti á næturmyndatökunni. Skörp allveg út í horn á stærsta ljósopi. Fíla líka rauðu norðurljósin, það gerir allveg helling fyrir myndina. Sjaldgæft að ná þeim en það virðist vera að það sé að aukast núna miðað við síðustu 2-3 ár. Sá svona á jökulsárlóni um daginn líka.

  7. rutu.r [deleted] (32 months ago | reply)

    Whoa!!!!
    Exceptional shot you got there!
    Just superb!

    GOsh, how i'd love to shoot these one day...

  8. KristjánFreyr (32 months ago | reply)

    Geggjuð! ertu að fylgjast með norðurljósaspánni þegar þú ert að fara að mynda ljósin ? eða eru yfirleitt einhver ljós ef það er heiðskýrt og það er farið að dimma svona ?

    Kv. Kristján Freyr

  9. Maud C. Brest Paris (32 months ago | reply)

    It's difficult I was here last year and my shots are not very good ! So... Congratulations because it's beautiful ;-) I want go back there.

    AAAAAAAAAAAhhh l'islande... le plus beau pays des merveilles !

  10. Kiddi Kristjans (32 months ago | reply)

    @orvaratli, takk fyrir það :) Reyndar eiga fisheye linsur miklu betri sjens á góðri skerpu en aðrar þar sem þær eru óleiðréttar, t.d. er Canon 15mm fisheye alveg rugl skörp líka. Sammála með rauða keiminn, mér sýnist þessi vetur ætla verða góður við okkur :)

    @KristjánFreyr, veistu, spáin var glötuð - við fórum bara samt, ég er löngu búinn að sjá að þessar norðurljósaspár eru óheilagar, ef það er heiðskýrt og stjörnubjart, þá er eiginlega gefið að þú munir á einhverjum tímapunkti sjá norðurljós :)

    @everybody else, thanks a lot for your comments :)

  11. kaimp (32 months ago | reply)

    Cool :)

  12. casadetake (32 months ago | reply)

    beautiful!

  13. Blu3wings - Bắp's studio (32 months ago | reply)

    awesome !

  14. Gildas Paraiso (32 months ago | reply)

    superb!

  15. hOps_INc (32 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic shot! :)

  16. Siuloon (32 months ago | reply)

    Awesome pic....
    so much interesting.......
    congrats on explore.....

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  17. ghislaine_m (32 months ago | reply)

    Que c'est beau

  18. k3n13 (32 months ago | reply)

    Incredible!!

  19. Apollyon Sun (32 months ago | reply)

    What a wonderful pic! Wanna come to Iceland!!!

  20. Nick-K (Nikos Koutoulas) (32 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic!

  21. polletjes (32 months ago | reply)

    Great picture. Wonderful light.

  22. Soleil is me. (32 months ago | reply)

    Wo! Greeting from Bangkok.
    What the beautiful image from you; be happy exhibit your art to my group:-
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  23. _Inez (32 months ago | reply)

    I want to visit Iceland next year, thanks for your tip!! :)

  24. nodyne (32 months ago | reply)

    This is absolutely amazing!!

  25. ar3ku (32 months ago | reply)

    Very nice shot, love these colors ^^

    Via Today's Explore at #4 on Fluidr

  26. Héctor Rubio (32 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful lights! Awesome capture.

    @Hectorubio

  27. Danny_1981 (32 months ago | reply)

    Very incredible!!!

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  28. Bkort photography (32 months ago | reply)

    Bara nokkuð gott félagi :-)

  29. Nipun Tantia [deleted] (32 months ago | reply)

    Just spellbinding marvolous image.......congrats on explore......have a nice day.....(:

    You can also visit My Photostream

  30. dominique.walterson (32 months ago | reply)

    fantastic aurora! love the stars too

  31. A.Alwosaibie (32 months ago | reply)

    awesome work..

  32. e0nn (32 months ago | reply)

    never see that sight from here in Australia .. thanks very much for sharing =]

  33. Artis Momentum (32 months ago | reply)

    our wonderful nature

  34. sxld (32 months ago | reply)

    Gorgeous, man.

  35. Captain Kimo (32 months ago | reply)

    Spectacular picture... one of the best image I've seen this monring!
    Cheers, Captain Kimo

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  36. thomasloevring.dk (32 months ago | reply)

    Congrats on explore! Well done.

    Have a nice day..

    [my flickriver stream]

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  37. Yeray Rojas García Photography (32 months ago | reply)

    que envidia me muero por ver alguna la aurora :)

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  39. Ben Salleh (32 months ago | reply)

    Wow!

  40. elainesut (32 months ago | reply)

    Ahh, I envy you.

  41. PhotoSenseDatum (32 months ago | reply)

    Yes, me too, I envy you.
    Awesome image.

  42. puszka (32 months ago | reply)

    This Is An Excellent Photo!
    This Photo Deserves The Aggressive Photo Award!
    Please Tag with "AggressivePhoto"

    Stairway To Heaven

  43. cyrke (32 months ago | reply)

    So lovely!

  44. schnapper_j (32 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful, well done.

  45. n€traaM (32 months ago | reply)

    Awesome picture!
    I love all the light coming from different places.

  46. JoshJackson84 (32 months ago | reply)

    Great picture, I was in Iceland for a week last winter and didn't get to see them at all :(

  47. Estrella Esteve (32 months ago | reply)

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  48. t3mujin (32 months ago | reply)

    The light on the road is a lovely detail

    Thanks for the tips, even if we don't have northern lights here

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  49. Nicolas Gailland (32 months ago | reply)

    Amazing colors !

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  50. Patflinschrod (32 months ago | reply)

    lovely work. kinda like having 2 kiss a lot of frogs 2 get that 1 prince!

  51. jenover2010 (32 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful, I've always been facinated by them.

  52. keoch (Very Busy) (32 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic shot, nicely done :-)
    your stream is amazing
    congrats on explore

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