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comment by AdolfHipster
From the Vimeo page (which you can find here: http://vimeo.com/36684976 )

Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16

Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 15-30 seconds on Aurora. ISO 1600 - 6400 F2.8. 3 second intervals between exposures

The Aurora were shot in central South Dakota in September 2011 and near Madison, Wisconsin on October 25, 2011.

Most of the video was shot near the White River in central South Dakota during September and October 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado during June 2011.





notseamus  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
haha my perception was way off lol.

I should really click through to these pages though.

Is this yours? It's beautiful.

You're really lucky to have seen the aurora like that, I've been trying to catch it recently with the latest solar flares, but every time it's occurring the weather has been too bad or it hasn't come far enough south.

AdolfHipster  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Nope, not mine. Although I am a photographer, I don't do much time lapse or astrophotography, although that's something I plan on changing in the near future as it's always interested me.
notseamus  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I don't have a car so I won't be doing any soon.

What equipment do you have for specialised astrophotography?

AdolfHipster  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You don't need anything special for this. Just a half decent camera body and a reasonably wide lens depending on your sensor size. Beyond that, a good, sturdy tripod (in this case, however, the photographer used a camera slider/dolly), and a remote with an intervalometer function so you can take images repeatedly without having to press any buttons.