The Milky Way was arching right over the top of us so I turned the camera to portrait to get the tail end of it in a shot with the Aurora. Times like this I wish I had a wider angle lens :)
Amazing soft colours, i had my iso at 800 because otherwise there is too much noise, but then i have to brighten the shots in post processing. accidentally discovered a setting in my camera that reduces noise in night shots, but by then the clouds were back!
@kali66 I don't normally like high ISO but was brave and went up to 4000 in some shots tonight. This one is at 2000 ISO so perhaps some of the stars are noise, lol! Even so, I have brightened this a bit in post but did it really late at night. In the cold light of day it seems to be a bit too bright now. The men who were at the same place as me were up to 64000 ISO. In hindsight I should have maybe used a higher ISO and slower shutter speed because my shots seem to be quite smoothed out and don't show the lines that are often visible in aurora. Was a great night though :)
Fantastic captire Nick. Just saw it on TT, so congratulations. I too saw the aurora from the south coast of Victoria, Australia. They are so wonderful to witness :)
