24th
2012
Photographing Auroras: Check out Patrick Endres’ Alaska Photography blog:
• Put your camera on a tripod.
• A high ISO is best, between 400 and 1600.
• The length of your exposure will depend on how large of an f/stop your camera lens has, try 5-30 seconds. Set your f/stop to its largest opening.
• Use a wide angle lens, manual focus, self timer release.
• TAKE OFF YOUR LENS FILTER, otherwise you will get some strange concentric circles on the image which your really cannot remove in post processing.
• Switch your camera to single point focus, preferably the center one.
• Manually turn your camera lens to the infinity focus mark. Find the brightest object in the sky and center your camera on it by looking through the view finder. Turn on LIVE VIEW and maximum zoom in on the object.
• Adjust the focus ring until you are satisfied the object is sharp.
• TURN OFF LIVE VIEW and shoot.
• Shoot in RAW format
• Have 2 batteries and 2 flash cards
• Cleaning cloth for condensation. Using a lens hood might help.
