9 Shooting the Aurora
Every landscape photographer, at least once in their life, should make the long trek north to photograph the aurora. The entrancing sight of silvery curtains swirling across the sky is so otherworldly that your first reaction is likely to be disbelief. The shapes are ever changing and unpredictable, blossoming and fading in one quadrant of the sky, then erupting in a different direction. As in many other types of night photography, your camera will record the spectacle better than your eyes. Even when dark-adapted, your eyes may only see arcs, ribbons, and rays of shimmering silver, perhaps with a greenish or reddish tint; your camera, however, will record far more vivid hues.
FIGURE 9-1: Aurora over Tombstone Mountain, ...
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