Aurora Borealis Time Lapse Movie 

Это конец нашего мира....Уже пора молиться!!!

Thank you. I haven't any plans yet to teach another Aurora Borealis photography workshop this winter but it is on the agenda for upcoming years!

Thank you very much. The digital camera is much better at seeing the pinks and reds in the Aurora than the human eye. At low light levels we tend to see more of the green, white, and yellowish light even though those other colors are there too.

No mama it's just the Northern Lights

Thank you very much. Fortunately, a couple of dislikes don't bother me. I know how much fun I had shooting these images and compiling this video. If it brings a few others, like you joy to watch it, then I feel like I have done my job! Have a great weekend and thanks again.

Oh! I know it is not discouraging but would like to know what makes them to dislike. It surprises me. That's all:) Photographing natural phenomenon is always rewarding. Personally. Thanks for sharing this with others. Especially the once who like it:)

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Thanks!

Apologies to anyone I confused. Broadcast is at 8pm MST 7pm PDT. My bad!

Don't have time to catch it...hope to do it later!

Watching!!

So beautiful.

Vicki Kohler Thanks. The show will be up on RU-vid tomorrow along with some notes and links.

Chissà i primi popoli che l'hanno vista marciando verso nord

@@Stefanox101 Ha un che di magico che colpisce tutti, sempre

Tariq Mckie thank you!

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Yes!

Can I see it?

Glad you like it!

Guru sakti

Thank you!

Thank you! I have had so may requests for footage from this video lately that I have posted most of it as individual clips at Adobe Stock. You can license, and download, sequences at stock.adobe.com/collections/p0GHWsEn7u4Je6ikkhv4Y1Xvw065OM33

Churchill Manitoba. Canada!

Thank you for the kind words on these timelapse clips. You can license almost every clip from this video at www.pond5.com/collections/2566699

Thank you! I have had so may requests for footage from this video lately that I have posted most of it as individual clips at Adobe Stock. You can license, and download, sequences at stock.adobe.com/collections/p0GHWsEn7u4Je6ikkhv4Y1Xvw065OM33

All these Aurora Borealis clips were filmed in Churchill Manitoba. Most were filmed right outside the door of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre. It's a fantastic place to visit for those who want to learn about, and photograph, the Northern Lights. www.churchillscience.ca/

very awesome! Thank you for responding. I wanted to see this wonder from Iceland, but I guess Manitoba is closer

I would love to go to Iceland too! And northern Norway....

if you do, make sure you film it :D

Thank you very much! I have taught a number of Aurora Borealis photography workshops over the years. The advice that I give my students is to set a baseline exposure as if we were photographing the Milky Way or pinpoint sharp stars. Ian Norman has an excellent "exposure calculator" for this on his website over at www.lonelyspeck.com/milky-way-exposure-calculator/ Starting with these settings, say 20" f/1.4 ISO 3200 for example, you adjust your shutter speed as the Aurora appears. The brighter the Lights get the faster the shutter. What we want to avoid the most is blown out highlights and over exposure. If things get really bright like during a huge solar storm, or if you are shooting in a place with lots of moonlight / artificial lights, than you can also lower the ISO too but your top priority is always the shutter speed. For the interval between shots, if you are shooting for time-lapse, I have two suggestions. If the Aurora is really dancing across the sky than use as short an interval as possible. This will generally be a 1" gap between shots with most intervalometers. If, on the other hand, the Aurora is just a green glow at the horizon with little motion than use about 1/5 of your shutter of speed for the interval; Ex 20" exposures = 4 second interval between shots. The wild card in this interval equation is the temperature and your camera battery life. That advice on using a 1/5ish gap between shots is silly when the ambient temperature is way below zero. In extreme cold situations, it's the battery life that limits our ability to shoot long time-lapse sequences so you might as well shoot with a minimal interval (1") between frames since you know that the battery is significantly reduced. I hope this advice helps. Thanks again and if you are interested I have a whole series of in-depth video tutorials on how I processed these time-lapse clips at www.focusphotoschool.com/adobe-photoshop-lightroom/time-lapse-photography/

Thanks for the fast and very detail reply, it really helps! Planning for a tour coming Dec to Iceland, trying to gather all the information I can so not to mess up my Aurora shooting. You have been extremely helpful, thanks again.

Very detailed explanations, thank you. I'm hoping to shoot a time lapse of the elusive southern lights on the other side of the world. Though as I'm based in Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, the chances of seeing the southern lights are very slim. Still, I'd like to try if the conditions look favourable. If they do appear here, I would imagine that they would probably be a bit faint, distant and not bright. Hence I could keep my exposure times long. Previously, I did use 30 second exposures for a milkyway time lapse with a 12mm f2 lens on M4/3 format. I suppose I could use those 30 second exposures again for a southern lights time lapse here on Kangaroo Island. Can't recall though if I shot at 1600iso or 3200iso with the milkyway time lapse.@@DavidMarx

You can license almost all of the clips in this video at www.pond5.com/collections/2566699-aurora-borealis-time-lapse-clips

Уже готова доказать,что это просто компьютерные эффекты

Giacomo Filippetti Grazie Giacomo, ormai buona giornata amico mio . . . ciao

Lily Llera Ciao Lily, grazie e un abbraccio

Antonino Giaimo Grazie. Thank you for the reshare. I appreciate it. Have a goodnight.

David Marx Thank you very much for sharing, good night . . . hello !

Thank you for the kind words on my timelapse videos. You are welcome to license any of my Aurora Borealis clips for use in your music video. See www.pond5.com/collections/2566699 for licensing options.

Dear Vincenzo Padovani, Thanks for asking permission. Sure! Use a little bit if you would like and please post a link when it ready. -- David Marx

You are really kind. My video will be ready tomorrow. Surely I'll link it here. Thank you so much. I'm a new follower now ;)

Good question. I put as little delay as possible between each of these shots. Using my intervalometers that's a one second delay. Under ordinary night sky conditions, I can get away with a longer pause (generally 5 seconds or so depending upon the lens) and the gaps are invisible with a little smoothing added when compiling the time-lapse. But up in the Arctic it is so cold that the camera battery life is a constant challenge. What I have learned is that every second of battery life up there counts so the more delay you add, the fewer shots that you will get before the cold shuts everything down.

Sure they areq