Aurora reindeer

Me and my friend Ole went out for shooting aurora yesterday as the aurora forecast was good and the sky was clear. We cleared out with the owners of a tourist camp near Tromsø whether we could come take som photos of some reindeers, used for turist sledge tours. Already before we came there the sky exploded in wonderfull auroras. We found the animals and approached them carefully. Some of them were abit scared, but this fellow didn't seem to take futher notice of us. These reindeers are used to people because of their "job". Normally they would panic if we got these close. I used Canon 5D III + Samyang 14mm 2,8 for this photo. Iso 3200, f 2.8, shutterspeed 3.2 seconds (not 4 seconds as I said). The point of view was to low to use a tripod, so I simply put the camera in the snow, using a remote controll for shooting. The focus was put on infinity. Mostly of the photos became useless because of the reindeer moving. Som very few became all sharp. This is just one exposure. It was taken in RAW-format, and then processed in photoshop CC as 16 bit. There were some minor adjustments of clarity, exposure and contrast. It was not nessesary to do major brightness adjustment on the deer and the ground, as there were alot of auroras also outside the frame giving "natural" light. A rope from hanging from the deers neck (connecting it to the ground futher behind) was removed of esthetical reasons. Around the neck, the rope is still visible. Then I used unsharp mask once at full size to crisp the photo up. After downscaling for web, another minor sharpening. Hope this was all. Have a nice weekend

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