Self-Portrait with Aurora Borealis - Imprinted by LightCaptured

in WORLD OF XPILAR13 days ago

The photos I made of Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights in Iceland, are precious to me.

Yes, I am not using the verb "take" here, intentionally, as one takes photos with their phone camera, while walking or having a coffee or a glass of wine with friends, you get the idea.

This photo here, as you can see from its meta-data below, is made during 15 seconds.

It is a long-exposure photograph where the camera is on a tripod.

To "freeze" myself, I ran on the road and then manually triggered a flash I was holding in my left arm. It took a few tries, I had to deal with flash power, position, angle, and Aurora isn't a constant light in the sky, it goes stronger and then it disappears.

Long story short, I am really happy and proud of that photo.

My precious Aurora selfie ;)

Just for the record this happened around 3:00 AM, after a day where I had to drive for about 400 km, walk a lot; on 1st of September, and the temperature was about -4 degree Celsius. Perfect late summer temperature for Iceland, I'd say! :)))

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Camera Body Model:Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Post-processing software used:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.5.1 (Windows)
Exposure Time:15 seconds
Aperture:f/2.8
ISO:1600
Exposure Compensation:0
Focal Length:16
Lens Model:EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

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Here is an uncomplete list of some of my equipment I use on a regular basis:

Cameras
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EOS M5
Canon EOS 550D
Lenses
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
7artisans 35mm f/1.2
StrobesDynaphos Speedster
FlashesMetz
Tripods and Mono-podsManfrotto
Benro

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 13 days ago 

Upvoted! Thank you for supporting witness @jswit.

Amazing photo :) Thanks for sharing it:) Cheers :)

 13 days ago 

Cheers mate, thank you! :)

Hola feliz día, que hermosa aurora boreal linda fotografía.

 9 days ago 

Gracias :)