Aurora Borealis
Taken by Catalin Tapardel on February 6, 2021 @
Municipal District of Opportunity No17, Alberta, Canada
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Well, February 06 exceeded my expectation. Was a mind-blowing night and the best show of 2021 we had so far, at least for our latitude. Had been shooting Northern Lights under -30C conditions before with no issues whatsoever but Feb 6th was from another league. My car showed -40C and with windchill was close to -50C. Went out earlier and by 19:30 hrs. I was on location already shooting the faint aurora. Data was looking excellent, skies were clear and I started shooting earlier with the single green band forming from east to west and some isolated colorful pillars. Just after 10pm the sky exploded and was filled with colors and shapes moving chaotic in all directions. The Aurora was so intense that the snow turned green. With only 2 hours and half outside, the tripods heads were frozen solid and I wasn’t able to move the cameras around. Ironically, I guess the Murphy law was working just fine while they were wild dancing up in the sky. Sadly the cameras were stuck in the initial positions and they were taking pictures at the same elevation. Moved the tripods around but as hard as I tried couldn’t change the cameras position at all. At one point I took the tripod with the video camera and moved up in the air following the aurora, lately did the same for stills. Despite the adversity of the situation I manage to get some shots at least. (February 06- January 07, 2021, Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17, Alberta, Canada)(Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24mm 2.8, ISO 4000; 1.6 seconds exposure; f 2.8, 14mm & D850, Sigma Art 14mm 1.8, ISO 2500 &3200; 1 & 1.6 seconds exposure; f 1.8, 14mm).
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