Hugo de Wolf
(K=185110) - Comment Date 11/11/2004
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Hi Roy, I've seen quite a few today. A few that I remember:
http://www.usefilm.com/image/606702.html
http://www.usefilm.com/image/606665.html
http://www.usefilm.com/image/606862.html
http://www.usefilm.com/image/606817.html
Just check the Today's Images page...:)
Cheers,
Hugo
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Rose Hooper
(K=899) - Comment Date 11/11/2004
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Oh, I saw those! I meant did anyone take a whole bunch that they didn't post to the site? I don't plan to post all of mine, for example!
Cheers,
Roy
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Hugo de Wolf
(K=185110) - Comment Date 11/12/2004
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Can't help you there. I shot a few a few years ago, though.
Cheers,
Hugo
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Darrell Larose
(K=736) - Comment Date 11/18/2004
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Ok, I guess I saw the Aurora too...
I was set-up 10 feet from my shooting buddy Roy, I have a SMC Pentax DA 14mm f:2.8, so I had a wider lens than Roy. I left my camera on a lower ISO to keep noise down, however my black frame noise reduction did slow my shooting down.
Spaceweather.com says there could be another display Nov 19-20.
My Gallery is at;
http://www.darrelllarose.ca/gallery/Aurora
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© Darrell Larose, Ottawa 2004
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Lori Stitt
(K=75282) - Comment Date 11/30/2004
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Hi Darrell,
I looked at your gallery on the web....AWESOME!
Lori :)
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Darie Petrov
(K=397) - Comment Date 12/4/2004
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I got a couple.. posted only one as I shot in Toronto .. was totally unprepared .. iso 100 film. Superhuge grain and bad saturation + high wind kept moving my medium-light tripod.(velbon 347i).
To see an example that had the grain fixed with neat-image go to my pics. After seeing that tell me if you want more (then I will put some work into PS-ing them).
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Steve Kaufman
(K=2748) - Comment Date 12/8/2004
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Kim Culbert asked me about photographing the northern lights in a comment on one of my photos. She reasoned that since I lived in Alaska, I would obviously have many chances to view and photograph the aurora.
Well, in actuality I live in a part of the state (Homer, the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula) where we don't see the aurora very often. In winter, we frequently have cloud cover. Also, our area is not in the ideal latitude or longitude for viewing the aurora. When Roy and Darrell were having the times of their lives photographing the aurora way southeast of us in Ontario, we had clear skies, and we could only see a faint glow of the aurora on the horizon. North of Fairbanks there were displays like what Roy and Darrell saw.
Roy has written an article about how he photographed the aurora, and it is very good. He'll soon be posting a link to it, and possibly it will be one of the articles on the site in the future. Another very instructional web page on the aurora is: http://www.eaglestation.com/dick/aurora.html
For me, my other problem photographing the aurora, is that I am an "early to rise" kind of guy, meaning that I rarely am awake at the optimum time for the aurora, which is around true midnight (2 AM for us here).
We have a cabin in the Alaska Range (about 450 miles from Homer) where we spend our summers. That area does have better views of the aurora, but not in summer when we don't have any darkness until late August. In winter, when it's clear, it's generally also very cold. Standing around outside at 2AM at -40 has never been high on my list of fun things to do, but I keep promising to myself that I will go north this winter, and try to rival the great photos Roy and Darrell were able to shoot!
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