andrewpmorse
Passing Energy
So this will likely be my last aurora shot for a while. This was from the largest aurora display I've ever seen, and the photo was both a literal and metaphorical shot in the dark.
The sky started erupting shortly after sunset and it was absolutely everywhere - all over the sky with more colours than I'd ever seen in an aurora. It was too much sky to capture in one image, even with a 14mm lens, so my natural reaction was to try and capture it as a stitched panorama. As soon as I pressed the shutter I remembered that the odds of an aurora shot stitching as a panorama are pretty low (due to the movement in the light between photos), but I decided to attempt it anyway. I had no idea if it would workout until I got home and gave processing a shot.
Good news! It worked! This is a 9 image panorama encompassing over 180 degrees of horizon - a whole lot of sky! I think the final cropped output ended up being something in the neighbourhood of 80 megapixels. If I ever choose to print this image and remember the surreal experience, I guess I'll be going BIG!
Taken with a Canon 5D IV and a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8. Processed from 9 images in Camera Raw, PTGui, and Photoshop.
Passing Energy
So this will likely be my last aurora shot for a while. This was from the largest aurora display I've ever seen, and the photo was both a literal and metaphorical shot in the dark.
The sky started erupting shortly after sunset and it was absolutely everywhere - all over the sky with more colours than I'd ever seen in an aurora. It was too much sky to capture in one image, even with a 14mm lens, so my natural reaction was to try and capture it as a stitched panorama. As soon as I pressed the shutter I remembered that the odds of an aurora shot stitching as a panorama are pretty low (due to the movement in the light between photos), but I decided to attempt it anyway. I had no idea if it would workout until I got home and gave processing a shot.
Good news! It worked! This is a 9 image panorama encompassing over 180 degrees of horizon - a whole lot of sky! I think the final cropped output ended up being something in the neighbourhood of 80 megapixels. If I ever choose to print this image and remember the surreal experience, I guess I'll be going BIG!
Taken with a Canon 5D IV and a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8. Processed from 9 images in Camera Raw, PTGui, and Photoshop.