Winter road Northern Lights
An awesome display of Northern Lights taken from the Ice Bridge at the Rivière des Rochers just outside of Fort Chipewyan.
Wow, we’ve really been seeing a lot of awesome Northern Lights here recently. Tonight’s show started early – I looked out the door just after 8 p.m. and the sky was already starting to fill up with auroras. By 8:30, things really started to pick up and we (myself, Leanne and her parents who are visiting us this weekend) decided to hit to the road and try to find a better spot for pictures. I’d had the idea ever since we went to Fort McMurray two weekends ago to take some photos from one of the ice crossings just outside of town. By the time we got out to Rivière des Rochers, there was already some brilliant, fast-moving auroras to be seen. I stopped there and took a 30 minute time lapse and a few other shots before we continued on to the Quatre Fourches crossing.
The Vokeys' Dodge Journey, parked on the des Rochers ice crossing.
Fort Chipewyan, seen in the distance under the aurora borealis from the Quatre Fourches ice crossing.
I was hoping to get another 30 mins worth of time lapse, but after about 15 minutes my camera started to act a bit funny because of the cold, so we called it quits and came back home to warm up.
Here’s the time lapse version of what I did manage to get.
Hey Scott,
The time lapse is really cool. Are you doing that with your Canon? How?
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Sean
First of all – Canon? I thought you knew me…
Yeah, my D700 has an intervalometer built in. So I set it to do a shot every 30 secs or so for about an hour to an hour and a half. Then I take the images into Aperture and export them as a video slideshow in which each image is displayed for 0.1 seconds (this one was 0.2, because I didn’t get as many images as I was hoping).
Are you still shooting with a D200? You should have an intervalometer in that too.
Oops, sorry! I’m getting old and my memory is fading. Why did we never share lenses? Anyway, thanks for the tip. Have never used that – I don’t shoot as much down here, just a few magazine covers from time to time, and some underwater stuff. I will play with the intervalometer and let you see if I get any interesting results. Thanks!