Spiral in The Sky

nobody@flickr.com (Jukka Vuokko) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:09:56 -0800

Aurora borealis (Northern lights).

Short story about picture:

I was at our summer house (or country house) at weekend. That's at SW corner of Finland, only 10 km from the Russia, at village called Miehikkälä.
Last night, the night between 10th and 11th september I spent partially by photographing black & white pictures of famous subject, rotating stars.

Then I saw them, in the middle of long exposure. Northern lights! (aurora borealis). The most beautiful ones, since those that I saw in the Lappland at late autumn 1993.

After first long rotating star exposure, I took several photos of those beautiful northern lights. But I had no idea what exposure to use, I have only photographed stars and comets before, never northern light.
And what bugged me most was that I had only one film back with me, and that was, ofcourse loaded with black & white film.
So no fear of beautiful green-yellowish colors :(

The exposure I used by guessing was: E.I 250, 5 minutes, f5.6 (film was Ilford Hp5+, 6x6cm). 40mm ultra wide lens.

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