Northern lights over Kenai Lake, Alaska.
This was about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday night – what a great show! I had been out the night before until about 2:00 a.m., and didn’t get anything, so it was nice to have some success this night. Since this is typically a winter event – getting a reflection in unfrozen water was kind of a nice bonus.
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Beautiful!
I’ll probably never get a chance to photograph something like that, but I’m curious–how long of an exposure do you need for such a scene?
Fantastic Ron!
I was going to ask the same question as Jessica, Ron. Can you give us the data for this shot? Lens, exposure, ISO, etc.
Beautiful! It must be nice to live in a place where you can see something like this on a regular basis.
The shot’s just awesome! You were both lucky- and you did a great job here, Ron! 🙂
I didn’t get to see the light, because I only heard about it 30 minutes after it was over. Darn! We don’t see the northern light here, in the southern of Norway, often, but it’s very common up north.
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Thanks everyone!
This was with a Canon 5D II with a 28-70 f/2.8 lens at 28mm and f/2.8 for 6 seconds.
I was going to sell that lens when I picked up the 24-105, but held on to it just for northern lights since it is a f/2.8 versus a f/4.
@ Renate Too bad you missed it – sounded like you had a better show – it started to fade before turning dark here. Thanks.
Thank you so much for the info!
Unbelievable!
Hey Ron,
Nice. Always a treat to see them; we didn’t catch them at all down in Katmai.
Cheers
Carl
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@ Joni Thanks!
@ Carl – Welcome back!