A magical night in Tromso, Norway

El Gato

Following kdog's advice, I have posted several of my aurora images in a single post.

Thank you to everyone who has previously commented, I appreciate your comments.

These aurora images are from a recent trip to Tromso, Norway.

Seefutlung

Seeing images like this just reinforces what a great place the Earth is. Thank you for sharing.

Gary

boco

Klasse erg mooi.
grt,boco.

Cavalier

Magical!

dlplumer

clap

Tom Foster

Fantastic! Never managed to get anything like that before! What do the RAW images look like out of interest? As in how much colour is in them and how much is post?

kdog

Amazingly beautiful shots. Some of the best aurora shots I've seen in a while.

Thanks for fixing up your post too.

El Gato

kdog wrote: »

Amazingly beautiful shots. Some of the best aurora shots I've seen in a while.

Thanks for fixing up your post too.

Thanks kdog.

I really appreciate your comments!

Stumblebum

I didn't see the last one before....all superb, that one is my favorite!

El Gato

A magical night in Tromso, Norway

Tom Foster wrote: »

Fantastic! Never managed to get anything like that before! What do the RAW images look like out of interest? As in how much colour is in them and how much is post?

Tom....

The colors are original as shot and have not been adjusted (saturation nor vibrancy).

The raw images are what one would expect shooting at night with low ISO, a tad bit dark. I tend to shoot lower ISO, longer exposure, just shy of getting star trails. My WB was set to 4700. The camera was my trusty Nikon D300, with a Tokina 11-16mm, f2.8 lens. The images were shot at 11mm to take in as much of the sky as possible. Had it not been so cold and not wanting to mess with switching lenses and the associated risk of damage to the camera (think numb fingers, snow, frosted breadth, etc.) I would have loved to have taken a few shoots with my fish-eye lens.

Post production included some minor cleaning of noise, and then adjusting levels and curves. In the horizontal images (#1 and #3), I used a neutral density filter (PS software add-in) to brighten the foreground some, as the image was a bit too dark for what I felt was a good composition.

Thelensspot

El Gato wrote: »

Tom....

The colors are original as shot and have not been adjusted (saturation nor vibrancy).

The raw images are what one would expect shooting at night with low ISO, a tad bit dark. I tend to shoot lower ISO, longer exposure, just shy of getting star trails. My WB was set to 4700. The camera was my trusty Nikon D300, with a Tokina 11-16mm, f2.8 lens. The images were shot at 11mm to take in as much of the sky as possible. Had it not been so cold and not wanting to mess with switching lenses and the associated risk of damage to the camera (think numb fingers, snow, frosted breadth, etc.) I would have loved to have taken a few shoots with my fish-eye lens.

Post production included some minor cleaning of noise, and then adjusting levels and curves. In the horizontal images (#1 and #3), I used a neutral density filter (PS software add-in) to brighten the foreground some, as the image was a bit too dark for what I felt was a good composition.

Really nice work! Thanks for sharing your PP work flow as well.

joe-bob

Awesome.

Cornflake

Very nice!

Sam

Absolutely spectacular. clapclap

I can envision myself sitting down all wrapped up in a warm blanket, totally relaxed in the crisp air and simply absorbing the view.

Sam

El Gato

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and commented on my images from Tromso, Norway.

I appreciate both your time in taking a look at my post and your comments!

Thanks again everyone.