It's hard to pick favorites, as many of my photos turned out pretty good. So here's a few picked to give you an idea of how varied the show was tonight.
Another funny thing about these photos: I had to use my 16-35mm lens, which I almost sold off a week ago at a camera fair… And it still wasn't wide enough!
This is a truly life-changing experience. Even understanding how it works, the vast scale and prowess of nature in action makes you feel small.
In retrospect, I could have taken more and better pictures, or video but, honestly: I was mainly focused on experiencing the event, and I don't regret that.
The challenge in taking aurora photos is that it is formed by a collection of faint delicate shapes in motion. If you expose for too long, you blur this motion and get mostly just the glow. So you want to keep your exposure time short (I kept mine below 1 sec for most shots), and to use a very fast lens (I had my zoom ƒ/2.8 and ultra-wide ƒ/4). Both could have been better but. regardless, I love the photos I took, and I'll cherish them forever.
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