A Nothern Lights (aurora) photoshoot - you know you want to see it :)

[xtremepsionic]

Check it out at my website's gallery and do leave some tips and comments so I can shoot better next time!

ps. I love my MINI and the Aurora was just a bonus


Click here to view gallery

Click here to see my other galleries (lots of other MINI pictures and non MINI pictures)

[minisoopercooper]

Very cool

Love your MINI as well

[Andy P]

They look great - very

[Paul]

Really, really cool.

[mark-o]

Wow xtreme that's awesome! I wish I could have seen it for myself. I checked out your other photo galleries too - they all look very good. Kudos and keep up the good work!

-M

[:: Jon ::]

Very Good shots

[minicore]

Those are great!

[MINI T]

fab pix.
northern lights are stunning and your mini just sets them off perfectly.

[Ferroequine]

Very nice, xtreme! You're putting your new camera through some good paces. What kind of settings were you using on those?

[vigilante]

did anybody else think..."now thats a cool desktop image?"

nice work....can I ask what camera you used (and any filters) ;D

[Richard82]

They are so amazing, that really is one thing I want to see before i die!

Are the photos 'un-touched'? The "moving stars and the milky way" photo looks so amazing that it looks computer generated!

Very nice photos mate, where were you when you took them & do you see them often?

[faster,Tobias!]

Great work, Lucas. I makes me regret missing them - I have seen them a number of times, but never in green. I guess it pays to look up once in a while! Beautiful pics...

[Greenie1]

You can see the Northern lights from the M25

[xtremepsionic]

Thanks for the comments everyone I had a lot of fun watching the aurora too, it was actually the first time in my life seeing them!

Camera, 4 year old Canon D60, heavy tripod with cable release. Settings, mostly ISO 800, 25-30 seconds, 12mm wide angle lens at f4.0. The one where you can see the Milky Way was ISO 800, 122 seconds, 17mm lens at f2.8. I tried using an off camera flash for some shots but I suck at lighting

Everything was real, our eyes don't see color very well at night, but cameras don't have that problem as long as the exposure is long enough. That is part of the reason why the colors seems very vivid in the pictures.

One thing a picture cannot describe is how smooth and ghostly the aurora is when it is moving around and changing continuously, truly an awesome sight!

[MiniMinor]

Excellent pics