April 12th northern lights

Brian_S

having checked out this site

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/NorthAmerica/

the northern lights were predicted to be good wednesday and thursday nights. wednesday was clouded over but thursday was clear, i took my camera gear to work with me for my night shift, later during a coffee break i stepped outside and seen the aurora was out so that was my excuse to leave work early, took some back roads to get away from the city lights and grabbed these



also happened to get Venus in some of the shots

Hikin' Mike

Always a good excuse to leave early from work! Nice work.

CatOne

Really pretty! I really like how in the first one the shape in the sky matches up with the bushes in the foreground. I might like to see a little more foreground detail... any chance you could selectively bump up the shadows there just a bit?

Also, the sky in the 3rd one is great. Again though, I might like to see _just_ a bit of detail in the foreground... just enough to keep it from being a black blob.

Great job on the sky capture, though!

DavidTO

I'm terribly jealous, having never witnessed this. Otherwise, I agree with Bill's comments. Beautiful.

Brian_S

Thanks Mike, Bill, David

best i could do with #1, my pp skills aren't the grandest lol



#3 i couldn't do anything with at all, foreground was too far away and couldn't bring it up

i caught these a month ago on a very cold windy night with clouds blowing in and out which added some mood, also a nearly full moon was out which ruined the black stary sky but helped light up the foreground