My favorite photo from this month, got real lucky with the borealis that night and stumbled upon this farm (the light at the end of the road) and had to take a shot at capturing it. However had a good month with night photographs and could have easily chosen from at least 10 photos to submit to this free study, was a nice "problem" to have so many to choose from.
Almost feel like there are too many stars in this photo but not like I was going to clone them out, hehe :) Wonder how many of you spot the three shooting stars during voting, I am going to guess five of you.
Post processing very minimal, just raw conversion tweaks, then a curves adjustment on just the sky and then just the ground and sharpened after resizing and added the frame.
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My favorite of your nothern lights landscapes. The glow of the sky, and countless stars framed nicely by the ground below. It all comes together very nicely. +fave
Don't worry about "to many stars". It adds to the mystical feeling of the cold and snow surround. You did a fantastic job of capturing the moment, and should be proud.
This shot is absolutely amazing! It's truly magical and I hope that some day I can do some traveling and learn how to take a shot as beautiful as that. I will visit Iceland one day! I love all the stars in the sky, especially the shooting ones and the colors are brilliant. Great job and Congratulations on a well deserved blue ribbon!
CONGRATS ON YOUR BLUE RIBBON!
Some day i wanna be there with YOU and MAK for taking photo of that!
Let me see that your secret spot!! GUHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!
Mmmmmmmmm Shooting stars...wow
I have tried to capture shooting stars before and that's an amazing feat in itself. And you get freakin 3 of them in a 20 second shutter!! Amazing!! and then you capture the aurora and snow and mountains and and and...
Definitely a photoshop deal, and not a very good one.
Dude, you got some imagination, I amire you for it and really look forward to seeing more of your photos in challenges cause if you can divert this much imagination on your own challenge entries, I think you should be up for a ribbon in no time :)
@kablinki... dude, you need to do a lot better research on what's possible with a 5D and a 24/1.4L. This shot was very minimally processed. Every bit of it is real. And yes, I've seen the original, so I do know of what I speak. You simply don't know what you're talking about.
Definitely a photoshop deal, and not a very good one. There are several aspects that give it away, but the number of stars you put in are ridiculous. When you have an exposure that was long enough to capture this many stars (and apparently a couple of galaxies and nebulas also) you would have to have the darkest sky imaginable. An aurora at the same time would bleed everything out. That's why you usually see very few stars, because the aurora can outshine most of them. The moon can be out at the same time, but the aurora is always on the northern horizon so the moon isn't in the shot. Even so, anything close to a full moon makes it very difficult for the aurora to shine through.
The uniformity and distribution of stars is also a dead giveaway. You may have used an actual shot of stars as your background, but it was taken through a telescope of a much smaller section of sky.
Aurora is brilliant, but paleeeeze show us something new. ughhhh
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kool kap'n kablinki
that's funny, i didn't read through all the comments....but did anyone catch the shooting stars???? what a wonderful image, and as some many has said....we have seen alot of borealis shots, but nothing like this....it just says, look at me, i am fantastic!
Ha, now you're smokin! That 24/1.4L sure is crisp. Love the composition. The fence & road lead the eye right to the farm, then the combination of the star field and aurora lead it around and back in a loop. Perfect. I even like the little bank of illuminated cloud. Was there any moonlight on the foreground, or is all that from the aurora? I suspect that you had at least some moonlight...
Edit to add: you also captured M31, the great galaxy in Andromeda. It's the fuzzy, bright bluish "star" near upper left.
I don't understand how you can use such a long exposure time without streching the stars. Do you use some kind of rotating tripod? And if you would have done that, the ground would not be so sharp as it is.
So! How did you do it?
Edited:
I have now had a good explanation on this, Thanks Odie
It is all in the lenz 24 gives no movement on up to 24s. :-)
Ég skil ekki hvernig þú nærð því að hafa svona langan lýsingartíma án þess að það teygjist úr stjörnunum.
Ertu með þrífót sem snýst jafn hratt og jörðin? Og ef svo væri þá væri jörðin öll hreyfð!
Hvernig fórstu að?
This is soooo amazing. I always look forward to seeing your great images of the borealis in Iceland. My new travel destination! I am definitely going to be ordering the largest print when I get moved to my new house here shortly! Thank you for providing this! Again...AMAZING!
Great image like usual Lárus! Hope we are not making people tired of the aurora borealis :) See the 24L is serving you well, I'm not shure myself if I should get a 24/1.4 L or 35/1.4 L ... Anyway congrats on yet another win. :)
If there are more beautiful Aurora Borealis photos around, I certainly haven't seen them. You have a great gift. I agree with Riversong, it's time you published a book on Northern Lights. Congratulations on winning the challenge.
Congratulations on having such excellent talent!! Thank God there is such a good photographer as you taking these amazing shots of the Aurora Borealis for those of us that aren't that far north. I know of people that plan their vacation around these lights and you are lucky enough to live right there. I'm sure there are drawbacks to living in such a rural area though.
Thanks for sharing these amazing images with us! (I see the shooting stars) This is a beautiful photograph. Guess you need to publish a book on your Northern Lights' images! I think you should.
simply stunning, and its amazing how many stars are out there! I havent ever seen anything like that here in the middle of nowhere in Utah!! Comgrats on the blue, you well deserved it!
I can't get enough of these shots. Since I can't see them in real life, these pictures never get old. Great composition, and colors of course are just brillant. Nice work.
wow... just wow... let me pause and look some more...
wow again. The only thing I'm annoyed by is what I assume were shooting stars; they look like sctraches. Maybe if there were more they wouldn't seem out of place... hardly your fault though! I'm amazed that the clouds were almost perfectly stationary for what I assume is quite a long exposure, based on the number of stars... I actually like the light at the end of the road, although I think it wouldn't normally have been in such a composition. headlights?
I'd give this an 8; for some reason I don't quite feel it's as perfect as it could be, but can't put my finger on it... have to come back and see if anyone else picks it up.
Experienced near the same reaction as last time I saw one of your masterpieces. Incredible. Looks like I'll be adding this one to my L.....
collection as well. 10+
WOAH. I see aurora borealis shots, but this is freakin' fantastic. I love all of the tiny pin dots of the stars. WOAH - that green/orange/purple thing going on in the sky is spectacular. I must see Iceland some day. Nothing like that in Texas, I can assure you. Bravo on a job well done. Only the 2nd 10 I've given.
I can look at these all day - You have this technique down to a T. Really well done. Would make a superb poster. I know it must have been a cold capture. You have inspired me to visit. Please PM me when the challenge is over to where this is. My fav so far - 10. The golden light at the end of the road couldn't be any more perfect.
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