How To Photograph The Northern Lights | EXPOSED
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- How to Photograph the Northern Lights covers what lenses you'll need, exposure times, and ISO settings for how to best photograph the aurora borealis. It also covers how to focus at infinity and how to great night photography compositions. Please let us know what other How-To videos you'd like to see in the 'Comments' below.
I was in Iceland back in September and I'm so happy with how my Northern Lights photos turned out thanks to these awesome tips!
Was thinking about going this September to iceland.
How exciting!! Which camera & lens did you use to capture your shots of northern lights?
This is very helpful. My first attempt was pretty blurry and grainy, I look forward to trying again with your tips. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the tip(s) especially the exposure (under 30sec.) which is very handy to keep in mind. Also, perhaps another good tip for others is; try to shoot away from ambient lighting like that of the city lights. Traveling as far out of town as reasonably possible of course, will help!
Also, in Northern BC (and possibly Northern Alberta and Canada for that matter) where the Northern lights are more spectacular (naturally) It can get rather chilly after the sun sets and who knows when the Aura will display itself (no given exact time!) And when it gets cold outside, people have a tendency to start a small camp fire to keep warm and therefore creates an amber glow which could distort or distract. best to simply keep the car going - stay warm and then when the Northern lights show up, go outside to shoot. Don't forget to shut off the car so the headlights (another unwanted light source) does not effect your shooting. Just my 2 bits worth!
This is stuff that would have never occurred to a layperson. Thank you for explaining it so well to be easily understood. I'm saving this video.
I'm in my bedroom laying on my bed watching this and I can see aurora from my window atm :D
Outstanding video. All your videos are excellent. Thanks for sharing these helpful tips. Photographing the northern lights is definitely on my bucket list.
Thank you!
Thank you for the tips. That's my dream vacation being able to photograph one the most beautiful phenomenon in our planet
i followed your instructions and got AMAZING photos of the northern lights in Iceland!
Hi, What time of the year were you iceland ? Where have you been able to see the lights ?
Planning a trip there, trying to figure out the optimal period for northern lights.
Any chance to see your photos ?
Thanks a lot
Love this . Thank you !!!
I’m heading to Iceland in two days and packing my Nikon D5600 and tripod to shoot the “northern lights.” Your tutorial is succinct and informative as I watched others that were unnecessary (and laboriously) too long.
Hello John! It,s me again David from Mizoram. The northern you took a picture of is superb. Nature lovers are most blessed in experiencing the ecstacy of beholding these beauty it makes one feel blissed with suchs. Sensation I wish you post back to me soon wish you all the best in life
I photographed the northern lights with my Huawei p40pro and they turned out great!
Last night I saw them in Thurso and it was a good display. Its amazing how the Huawei p40pro smartphone can shoot the northern lights.
Seeing the northern lights is something you'll never forget! Huawei p40pro is a professional camera and I'm so impressed with it even for astrophotography!
I bet you have alot of fun photographing the northern lights. Mother nature's greatest show!
Okay this is more or less like the Milky Way shoot… We are going to northern Alaska next week! I can’t wait to see and do this in person!! 🤩
Which camera and lense did you use
Beautiful !!!
Really amazing tutorial. everything is explained in detail. Thank you!
Thanks!
Hi. I very much enjoyed your Northern Lights video. I'm going to Iceland soon, hopefully I'll see the Lights.
Yes! I'd love to see advice on how to shoot orcas from shore. I've been shooting on autofocus with a 75-300mm zoom and the coloring can get very off in photos. Thanks for this northern lights tutorial!
Excellent photo and timelaps, thanks for good tips. Will be used in Northern Norway
Great Video! Straight up. Going to the Artic next week and this will definitely come in handy. Thanks!
Watching this while stuck with my iphone camera 🙄.
Great tips by the way 🙂
That was wonderful John. Thanks for sharing this video with us - Loving the time lapses!
Thanks Jo-Ann!
Thank you. time lapse was very helpful.
Thank you for video! Going to photograph them tonight :)
Excellent tutorial. I’m heading the Arctic Norway 🇳🇴 next week and this will help. Thank you.
I would love another tutorial, it was so cool and well explained !! Thank you for your vids John.
Great instructions, unbelievable video's! thanks!
Thank you! Love to more advice on how to shoot wildlife!
Thanks for the tips I am going to try these in the North of Sweden :D
Hope they work out for you.
thank you I am going to use these tips when I go to Alaska
Very nice work! Informative too.
Excellent tips. Thank you.
Very useful information here, and outstanding images! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent simple and sweet informative video.
Thanks for the tips! Very useful!
Thanks mate ! :) Im in Senja north nowray and ll try your tips tonight :) just with basic canon 750D
Great vid! Going to Iceland and hope to capture some pics of the northern lights myself.
My method of getting the most natural colors in the aurora is making a preset for 2800-3000 kelvin in white balance. Drasticly lower or colder than my Sony a7r reads. My camera is also reading white balance wildly different between setups. All from 3400-4000 kelvin. All way off in my opinion. My sweet spot in white balance for aurora borealis is 2850kelvin. I just set that value in lightroom, but I guess it is better to set that value in camera. The picture turns out cleaner and brighter and artificial light also does not make this terrible orange haze all over if Im shooting close to my town. First and foremost the auroras look the same or very simular in my photos as with my bare eyes. This is a recent discovery after a little research.
i would like to to see more tutorials like that! This video is very good!
P.S. I am from Germany
very good tutorial , how to take Aurora photography. thnak you very much
thanks i did enjoy it, really.
you increased the items in my bucket list
greeting from north California.
Mr. Frank
Great video, looking forward to checking out more. My friend and I are brand new to the DSLR world and there are no local classes in our small Alaskan town.
We've got a bunch more How-Tos in the pipe.
Going to Alaska this december. Fingers crossed to catch the Northern Lights :)
thanks for the tips! I'm up in Churchill Mb trying to shoot the northern lights and this should help a lot
Thank you so much for this! You have a new subscriber. Hello from Alaska. 👋
Thank you John for sharing, I'd so like to travel north, anywhere in the US to try my hand at capturing the northern lights. Which I have never seen! Maybe here some day soon.
Have you thought of Alaska? I think you'll enjoy the views there. All the best in the quest!
Great video John, all your tips are noted especially with regards to focussing - Thanks for sharing! I'm planning a trip for November just deciding on the best place to go? All the best.
I like your video, that's really an amazing northern lights.
I enjoyed this and thanks for the tips on how to shoot infinity.
Thank you, hope the tips are working for you.
Thanks for the tips - Believe that Jasper is not bad place to be for the northern lights . At least thats what I read. So going to try with your tips
Will be there in MArch. Hope its not too late
Hello how are you doing?
Great video, thanks for these tips.
Thank you very much, your information
Great video. I would LOVE to see you do a how to video on shooting whitetail deer, particularly bucks. They can be extremely illusive & skittish. Where I’m from (S Louisiana) your best chances of seeing 1 is at dusk or dawn when the light is the lowest. It’s difficult getting close to them, making a large telephoto lens a must. It’s extremely challenging getting quality photos of these animals. Any tips on equipment, setup, etc would be amazing. Thanks
Great video! Thnx
Hallo John, Wann warst Du da? Wir fliegen näschte Woche nach Island, hoffen wir kriegen cool Fotos! Danke für den Tipps.
Tolles Infos hier - Folgt!
well done! Nice!
my wightest Lens is to 18mm. f3.5. will this do?
Great job guys!
Thanks Pat! Those time lapses turned out pretty good, eh!
superb
Usually when I shoot skies I always set it to infinit or a littel less than that
Great video
Amazing!
Thanks...nice tips
I have a suggestion,... I would like to see you present at the Summit in Banff! ;-)
Haha, indeed!
Great info. I always read to use your camera's lowest ISO for northern lights shots. I took some in Iceland at ISO 200 which required 30 second exposures. Can you comment on the trade off of High ISO/6s exposure vs. my 200ISO/30s exposure? Going to Fairbanks AK for the Sept 22 equinox and want to be prepared!
Great video! Thanks for the tips. Any advice on trying to take a photo with people infront of the northern lights?
Nice tutorial!!! Very very nice! Can you please tell me what is the music beginning at 3.49 its so so cooooool!
Can you explain the interval part? If I use a shutter speed of 5 seconds and interval of 7 seconds, will it be okay? And delay of 2 seconds to avoid camera shakes. F 2.8/ iso 2500/ shutter speed 5 seconds/ interval 7 seconds/ delay 2 seconds and the number of photos I’ll set to - for as long as 16gb of memory can take. What is your suggestion on these settings? It is my first time so I need some guidance. This is what I felt would be okay but I need an expert’s advice on the time lapse. Also 24fps I’ll be shooting. If I had to set a time like 10 seconds time lapse for 24 fps, then how much should be the interval and delay ? Thanks again.
whats the right setting for timelapse? thanks hope you can help me im using nikon d5600 thanks alot!! God Bless
Thank you for a really great video. It helped me a lot, as I am starting astro/night and Northen Light photography,do you have any recommendations for a fast wide angle lens? I also have a Canon 5D MK IV, cheers.
Thank you for this video! I am going to Lapland in March and the focussing on infinity part is what freaks me out the most. I am so scared that I am júst off by a milimeter and my photos will be all out of focus.
interesting... I shoot it with a much smaller aperture, lower ISO and longer shutter speeds. star trails aren't noticeable and it's easier to get the landscape in focus
Interesting!
Which lens in particular do you use to shoot the Aurora? And is it possible to manually focus at infinity with an STM lens?
Flawless Victory.
Amazing earth
What camera are you using? I don’t anything about photography but would love to get into astrophotography, specifically that of Northern Lights and Aurora Borealis
Amazing video!
Thank you!
hello I will be shooting with a Canon 6D mark ii can I use the same settings
What did you have your intervals set at for shooting??
Please help. I'm buying a cannon R5 and not sure what lense to buy for these results I'm going in October to photograph and I'm so lost of the specific lense that would be best for this? Is there a certain name for the lense ?
Never use my flip 4 camera. Fir night shooting. Will b chasing the lights in norway. N 2 weeks time. Is it worth buying n extra lens fir it
I am planing a trip to Iceland, if I get lucky I will be able to see the Northern Lights, I bought a Nikon D3400, and was checking the lens, and they don’t have infinity mode, how can I take the pictures. Thank you so much for your videos, I really appreciate you take the time to explain, what for some people is easy for me it is level five. thank you.
Just make a mark on your lens when you focus at something far away and then at night move your focus to that mark and turn off AF.
Outstanding, very informative. I am going to upgrade to a Nikon D5, any suggestions, such as best place to buy, lens, etc. Again, Thank you
Hello how are you doing?
I really want to see the Northern Lights so am booked on a trip with the Hurtigruten (Norways Coastal Ferries) which will be beautiful. Unfortunately for photographing them with the need for a tripod and long exposures I won't be able to get this from a moving boat!
Can I shoot with sony alpha 6000 ?
What lodge were you at for this video ? Trying to get up to that area; northern lights are on my bucket list.
I dont think you mentioned the place and time of the place and how to get there?
Of you have your aperture right up there at 2.8 and focus on 'infinity', do you not end up with a blurred foreground?
What are your settings for the camera's high ISO noise reduction?
Polar bears please!
Thanks!
Please may know what is the soundtrack you are using in the background of the video
Would like to ask you for the best and correct settings to take photos and videos of the Northern Lights like this in Finland. I may use GoPro Hero 5 Black which I am very new to. Please kindly share and advise.
Awesome i am a great fan of yours:
Do you think its possible to photograph northern lights with a f 4.0 lense?
It totally is. You just need to bump up the iso a bit or lower the shutter speed
That music in the beginning is annoying but the rest of the video THANK YOU
What camera are you using?
since you mentioned it...any tips on taking photos of orcas? i will be on on a rib boat as well as snorkeling with them for 2 days in andenes norway in january
Ok question I have a 17 to 40 mm f4 so too slow ? or I have a 50 mm f1.8 is that too long ?Which one would you go with. OR would you say try them both and see.
Hello, John, thank you so much for sharing this. This all was made with Time Lapse - Can you imagine to get a high quality result with the video programm of the EOS 700D ? Only in APSC Format and with the Canon lense 10-18mm, 1:4.5-5.6 ? Thank you for a response ;-) We'll visit Norway in March and hope to see the Northern Lights - we're dreaming about every night ;-)
Good luck!!
Thank you