Photographing the Northern Lights
This talk documents a visit made to Southern Iceland to photograph the Northern Lights.
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What are the Northern lights?
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Planning a trip
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Technical considerations
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Experiences
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Tips
The presentation includes several images and time lapse videos from the trip
Nightscape Photography
This talk, which lasts around 60 minutes, provides an overview of the techniques used to capture night images and star trails using a standard off-the-shelf digital SLR
- Planning
Subjects, apps, weather - Equipment
Camera, tripod - Tips
Basic settings, safety
The talk includes examples of basic processing techniques using Photoshop
Deep sky Astrophotography
A talk giving an overview of the process of acquiring deep sky images
- Prepartion
Choosing a target, weather, equipment - Setting up
Camera, mount, focussing, tracking - Taking the image
Dithering, H alpha, colour - Closing down
Mount, humidity, frost
The talk includes deomonstrtations of simple processing techniques
There is a follow up talk showing the full processing of colour image from raw data