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Aurora, dark sky and snowy mountains go together
Aurora, dark sky and snowy mountains go together
birgir


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Challenge: Things That Go Together (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Onundarfjordur, Iceland
Date: Jan 29, 2004
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Feb 1, 2004

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Statistics
Place: 23 out of 164
Avg (all users): 6.1040
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 6.0097
Avg (non-participants): 6.2429
Views since voting: 3189
Votes: 173
Comments: 20
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 02/10/2004 07:53:20 PM
truely amazing - especially for me who has never seen anything like this being a beach dwelling aussie. you are privilaged to see such a wonder of nature first hand. even our sunsets dont look as cool as that.

Message edited by author 2004-02-10 19:53:59.
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02/08/2004 10:37:41 PM
Reminds me of a cover for a Sci-Fi pulp magazine.
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 02/08/2004 09:35:22 PM
very well done. 10
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 02/08/2004 08:55:51 AM
Noise reduction would help this picture...
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 02/07/2004 01:42:58 PM
This is a really cool shot if you could get rid of all the noise. There is abundant noise in the sky and even some in the snow. who'da thunk it? Maybe go with the lower ISO and a reduced exposure and probably you'd have got a ribbon for this challenge. This is absolutely amazing as a subject, but only pretty good as a photo in my opinion. 8
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 02/07/2004 11:49:13 AM
Very Cool! Great contrat between the Aurora and the white and black mountains and snow.
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 02/07/2004 02:56:21 AM
I'm very envious of you being able to photograph one of the greatest 'Light Shows' on Earth and do such a fine job. I’ll bet that some people think it to be ‘painted’. I grew up near San Francisco in Central California & I only saw the ‘Northern Lights’ about 5 or 6 times. I got to see them a few more times in Northern Idaho and used up every picture I had available. Your photos are wonderful. My entry in this challenge is a direct result of the comments left & PM’s to me from the Painting with Light challenge. I wanted to show the uninformed what it takes to get a photo. Sometimes they just don't see.
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 02/06/2004 07:54:10 PM
Awesome. Doesn't look real! Great shot.
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 02/06/2004 04:12:01 PM
very beautiful
almost unreal
I love the tones
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 02/06/2004 03:46:59 AM
That's a far stretch, IMHO.

Cool picture though.
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 02/04/2004 10:45:39 PM
if this is real it's the best
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 02/04/2004 01:05:54 PM
This is a great shot, wonderful colors 10
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 02/02/2004 09:14:35 PM
Wow
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 02/02/2004 07:17:32 PM
Nice shot.
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 02/02/2004 04:16:53 PM
I wish I could see one of these for myself. Good shot.
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 02/02/2004 12:04:55 PM
How was this done?
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 02/02/2004 12:01:13 PM
Very cool ! This almost looks like a scene from some far off distant planet. Love this scene and the cool colors. Grain detracts alot, especially in the lower third of the image although I like it in the aurora.
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 02/02/2004 09:09:58 AM
I wish you hadn't posted this in the forums prior to the challenge.
We try to remain anonymous throughout the challenge.

anyway... great capture of the northern lights, however the overall image is a bit tilted. It seems you may have enhanced the saturation, because the snow has greens and magentas in it as well. I also think a horizontal crop would lend well to the motion feeling of the aurora.

good luck in the challenge :)
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 02/02/2004 03:14:11 AM
When the challenge is over, please post the original for all to see. A truly remarkable shot. 9
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 02/02/2004 01:33:00 AM
Having never taken a picture of the aurora borealis, I cannot begin to think how difficult these are to photograph. I like the way the aurora streams across the night sky and its color. However, it looks like you had to use a faster ISO setting of 400-800 to capture this and it shows with excessive noise levels.
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