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Gary Dyck
{K:12834} 3/11/2006
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Hi Sharrie, yes, these are common in Nunavut as well, but depend upon when you are there and how far north you go. Where I used to work on the north end of Baffin Island, they were common, but mostly very faint (due to the close proximity to the magnetic north pole). South Baffin, however, has extraordinary aurora. Also, north Baffin has a long "day" of about 2½ months where the sun doesn't set, making viewing of the aurora impossible before mid Sept and after about the end of March to mid April. Cheers, Gary
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Sharrie Shaw
{K:944} 3/11/2006
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Yeah, these are hard to capture. Not to mention the cold! I was in Alaska in the middle of winter (end Jan.) trying to get a peek. Much too cold to enjoy them! & I guess you need a good tripod too! Oh well, may be some other day. Do you get these in Nunavut as well?
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Sharrie Shaw
{K:944} 3/11/2006
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Yeah, these are hard to capture. Not to mention the cold! I was in Alaska in the middle of winter (end Jan.) trying to get a peek. Much too cold to enjoy them! & I guess you need a good tripod too! Oh well, may be some other day. Do you get these in Nunavut as well?
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hdw Photography
{K:6630} 1/28/2006
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Nicely captured Gary and so is the rest of your portfolio.Well done and thank you for the time you take on viewing my pics and doing critque....appreciate it.
Best wishes
Hilton
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Kelly Duntley
{K:13889} 11/26/2005
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Wow, what a sight this must be to see in person. I am always amazed just by looking at pictures of these wonderful displays of light. Natures fireworks. Wonderful capture.
Kelly
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 11/20/2005
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Hi Gary, Great Northern Lights! I thought of you the other day, they were showing on CBC a tourism campaign for Nunavut - it ran for I don't remember how long on the big screens in Times Square, NYC.
Thanks for the tips on when to shoot the Northern Lights. Amazing display!
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Gary Dyck
{K:12834} 11/19/2005
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Hi Ann: well i don't quite remember, but I believe the shutter speed was between 10 and 20 seconds. I did not have my shutter release cable with me and the slowest auto shutter speed is about 6 seconds or so. My camera was on a tripod and i manually held down the shutter release button with the setting on bulb. I didn't want to keep the shutter open too long and cause camera shake but long enough to get some kind of exposure on the rather slow film that I used. I think ideally one would use iso 400 at shutter speeds of anywhere from 10s to a minute or even a bit longer.
As for the best time, well, depends on the time of year. In mid to late Aug, one has to stay up until after 1 or even 2am before it's really dark enough to see them. By the time I left the Yukon in mid Sept, it was dark enough by about 11pm to midnight. This pic was probably taken between midnight and 1 am. Sometimes the lights last for just a few minutes and sometimes for much longer.
If you can't live in AK, I'd suggest visiting there in late sept or Oct for some amazing displays. Even though it's colder then, it's not as cold as Jan or Feb!! Every clear night I was up there I saw the lights, though some nights they weren't overly bright. They always amaze me with their colours and motion etc...
Thanks for your comments. Cheers, Gary
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 11/18/2005
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Finally one of you northerners posted a photo of this wonderful phenomenon. I came quite close to living in Alaska recently. One of my main reasons for wanting to do so was so I could witness first hand the Northern Lights. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. Was this shot in the wee hours of the morning as I'm told the best time for these lights is between midnight and 2am? Also what were your settings to capture this? Slow shutter speed? Just wondering how you'd take something like this.
Thanks also for dropping by my page and for your comment on my Monument Valley shot.
Cheers - Ann :)
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NN
{K:26787} 11/18/2005
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Always fascinating ... thanks for sharing, Gary!
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 11/18/2005
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very nice lighting effect,great job,best regards.
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