This picture was taken the same night as the previous one, I just moved about 40 meters to the right. The clouds had almost covered all of the Northern Lights, but the water was still and Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mtn were visible. I took a ten second exposure.
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Amar
More experimenting with star trails pictures. Northern Lights were out, but I could only include them in part of the frame. I thought with the Northern Lights I would include star trails, so I took several pictures over a 15 minute period. When I started there were less clouds, but they soon moved in. In the end I lost some of the star trails and the northern lights. But I was still happy with the experiment.
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Amar
Was out enjoying the cool night while practicing taking pictures of star trails. Everything else about photography is the same, it's about trying to decide how the start trails can enhance the overall picture. It will be fun to see what I can come up with, there is no limit to photography and imagination. Looking forward to more trials and errors.
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Amar
With shorter days it time to get out to take night pictures after day light has passed. Few days back on a cool night I made my way to the Vermilion Lakes to see what the sky loked like. Just enough clouds in the sky to add to the picture and the light from the Banff lit up Mount Rundle and some of the clouds.
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Amar
The pictures I was getting of Mount Rundle, kept the cold from the night away. Day or night, its a beautiful mountain to take a picture of at any time.
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Amar
Middle of the night, all bundle up and standing next to open water. Could just make out the northern lights to my right and the town light coming up front of me. The northern lights were not going to spread any further, so I just went about playing with the camera's setting and kept taking pictures. Playing with the sensitivity of the sensor and taking exposures 10 to 20 seconds long. When happy with the results, it was time to head for a warm bed.
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Amar
Days are getting shorter, providing lot of time to go out and take pictures in the night before bed time. Being cold, all you need is to throw on a few layers and grab a trusty headlamp. Oh yeah, need a camera and a tripod. Then set up the equipment, put it on manual and play with the setting until you start getting something interesting on the camera's display and go from there.
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Amar
I thought I was heading for my bed, but an email came through, indicating there was a possibility of Northern Lights. Ten minutes later I was on my way out and another ten minutes more, I was taking pictures of Northern Lights. Even though the camera's sensor sees lot more then my naked eyes, the more my eyes got used to the night, the better the lights got.
We had a beautiful night in Banff, the sky was full of Northern Lights. The mind wanted to stay out but the body needed rest.
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Amar
It was the night the Northern Lights might have put on a show. Much of the sky was open the water was still, but the lights had other plans that night. That was okay, there were enough elements to make an image.
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Amar
A picture taken middle of the night, the drama helped by the town of Banff lighting up Mount Rundle and the clouds above.
Town light illuminating Tunnel and Mount Rundle. A quite night filled with stars. The moon still behind Fairholme Range. Water clam reflecting what's above the lake.
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Amar
Was having fun taking picture of Mount Rundle at night. The sky was clear, the clouds had moved on, so I started to look for another element to include in the picture. Looked around with my headlamp and saw the tree, rest was straight forward.
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Amar
Few nights ago I was trying to take pictures of Northern Lights. The event did not last too long and the intensity was low as well. Nonetheless I came away with couple of good images.
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Amar
Life is full of challenges, and some times we create our own to become better at what we do. Several months ago I decided I wanted to learn to take pictures of northern lights. First part of the challenge was to gather information to know when the lights might be taking place, internet helped with that. Second, find a place that will make for a good composition, lot to choose from in Banff. Third, the hardest part, play with the camera setting to get what you want. Here's a picture I took few weeks back, the journey continues.
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Amar
The universe contains everything that exists including our galaxy the Milky Way. The Milky Way about 100, 000 light years in diameter and 1, 000 in thickness, with mere 200 to 400 billion stars. On the inner rim of the Milky Way's Orion Arm is our star the Sun. The third rock from the Sun is our planet the Earth. On Earth on a continent North America, in a country Canada is the national park Banff. In Banff next to the Third Vermilion Lake, I stood looking outward toward the universe.
It was middle of the night, under four hours before the sun would be showing its face. I was on the Icefields Parkway, taking pictures of landscapes all lit up by the moonlight, the night after the full moon had crossed the sky. For the attached image, I was standing in the middle of the road keeping a watch for any vehicle front and behind me. I was taking 20 second exposures, even though my eyes were seeing everything as if it was daylight, the sensor in the camera needed more time to capture the landscape and the stars. As I waited for the camera to take the shot, it hit me, I was surrounded by absolute quite. There was no breeze and no animals were heard or seen, just me and the well lit up night landscape underneath the stars.
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Amar