Northern lights

[Rodney01]

Hi chaps thanks for the add.
I'm off to Norway at the end of this week, hopefully to get some images of the northern lights, any suggestions on the exposure settings to use, I have a 1D mk4 with a 24mm f 1.4, cheers Rod

[antoeknee]

Re: Northern lights

From trip to Iceland.
ISO 800 f4 30secs

Should be a good starting point. Or some variation of these settings i.e. up ISO and reduce one or both of the others. If you want to avoid star trails divide focal length into 500 and that's the maximum exposure time in seconds.

Of course you'll need tripod and remote. Manual focus and focus to infinity.

[Tigger]

Re: Northern lights

I would do a search here as a member posted up some stunning images recently but I can't recall his username

PS ..welcome

[the black fox]

Re: Northern lights

a friend of mine oliver wright is up there at askibo doing the tour guiding for four months some shots look spectacular ,i'll try to find a link in a bit

ah here ya go prepare to be amazed

http://www.oliverwrightphotography.com/blog/view/arctic-blog-number-6-hawk-owls-macros-and-the-most-amazing-auroras

[antoeknee]

Re: Northern lights

He did post some exposure info for one shot

Zeiss 15mm f2.8 4 seconds iso 3200

[AlexR!]

Re: Northern lights

I would do a search here as a member posted up some stunning images recently but I can't recall his username
:

Was this what you meant? James has uploaded many stunning aurora images, this was just one of many: http://www.eos-magazine-forum.com/sh...lacier-Iceland (hope you don't mind, James)

[antoeknee]

Re: Northern lights

Exit for that image

ISO 1000 f3.2 10secs

[Rodney01]

Re: Northern lights

Thanks for the quick replies

[Tigger]

Re: Northern lights

Was this what you meant? James has uploaded many stunning aurora images, this was just one of many: http://www.eos-magazine-forum.com/sh...lacier-Iceland (hope you don't mind, James)

yep thats the one cheers Alex