Aurora

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Stunning images of bright and colourful aurora displays are all over the net. And for the first time I have seen some amazing displays of this mesmerising phenomena myself. I realised that the aurora may not be as colourful to the naked eye as some of the images you see may lead you to believe. There is, and this is a controversial issue for some regardless of subject matter, most certainly a lot of post processing applied to many of these images. Keep in mind though that the camera sensor is able to record colour in low light conditions when the human eye is more or less restricted to a monochromatic view of the scene. And don't forget the artistic license.

8 second exposure at ISO 800, 28mm lens @ f/2.8. The exposure is increased about one stop, and the saturation is increased slightly.

Autumn in Lofoten

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Back again after a week in the Lofoten islands which was the reason for lack of posts last week. I am sifting through the images from the trip, and I'll start with this image and post a few more over the coming weeks.

The view here is towards the west over Hopsvatnet from the road to the small community Hopen, The mountains in the background are part of Lyngværfjellet with Rørvikskaret on the left.

Old School

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Yes, I guess you could say that I am a bit old school, if you think using a hand held light meter is just so yesterday. Well, I beg to differ. Images like this is one of the reasons why. If you know your camera well, you would probably get the exposure right drawing on your experience. But with the light meter one measurement is sufficient to find the right exposure for the backlit spiders web. So why take a lot of snaps to get the exposure right, when you could concentrate on getting the right angle? 

Noctilucent Clouds

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At the latitude where I live, the sky is quite bright during the summer nights. Round mid summer it barely gets dark enough to see the brightest stars. As we move into August the night sky darkens and stars start to appear again. Another late summer phenomena are noctilucent clouds.

Ferns

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A recurring theme for me, the ferns. There are a lot of nice, fine details in the leaves of the ferns which gives the eye a lot to explore. This low resolution version may not convey that, but it is there in the original.

I have tuned the B&W conversion a bit to make the ferns stand out from the background. Some may not like that, and label it as cheating. But I see it as a way of conveying my vision of the subject. It is an important part of the process of creating an image. Keep in mind that most images you see online or in magazines have been subjected to some form of post production. Either by a human, or by the processing software in the camera or the app on the smartphone. It is very rare to find an image which is unaltered, though news and documentary photography are, as a rule, notable exceptions.