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Aurora borealis
Aurora borealis
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Challenge: Landscape II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM
Location: Krisuvik, Iceland
Date: Nov 3, 2005
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 2 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Nov 8, 2005

 Not really happy with this shot, this is the second time this week I take a shot I had taken just in general and not specifically for a challenge and made it fit a challenge and I firmly think this will bomb... Anyway, if I had to put a label on myself as a specific type of photographer, it would be a landscape photographer so I just couldn´t sit this one out so if it bombs I will at least know I did my best considering the season.

Taken during the same trip as my shot in "dead end", went with andri and I wouldn´t be surprised to see one of his aurora shots here in this challenge too.

Anyway as for the PP it was taken in raw and developed with Rawshooter premium, then shadows/highlights and curves, once to increase contrast and another curve to darken the dark parts specifically and finally sharpened after resizing.

Edit after voting: Woohoo, I am VERY happy with this score even though I think this shot is overrated, I won´t complain :D

Statistics
Place: 25 out of 403
Avg (all users): 6.4676
Avg (commenters): 8.0769
Avg (participants): 6.2246
Avg (non-participants): 6.6337
Views since voting: 3097
Views during voting: 590
Votes: 340
Comments: 15
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/14/2005 06:57:38 AM
looks great. 8.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2005 03:09:41 PM
You are so lucky. I have not witnessed these in a decade. Thanks. 10.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2005 02:43:21 PM
Always love the aurora shots!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2005 12:57:40 PM
Wow, is this real?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2005 08:23:50 PM
Awesome photo! Love the color and how the hills are still clear.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2005 01:40:35 PM
Sweet! Underwaterlike. And the exposure time is even short enough not to create star trails. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2005 10:35:33 AM
One of the best submission of the Aurora borealis 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2005 11:16:28 AM
Oh my!!!!!! How incredibly lucky you ARE to be a tthe right place on this earth to be able to capture a scene like this!!! I gasped when I opened up the picture. Congratulations on a perfect photo. A National Geogrphic photo for sure! 10 (of course)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2005 10:34:03 AM
There are about 5 or 6 Northern Lights shots and the is the best of that bunch and in my opinion one of the best of the whole challenge. Well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2005 08:29:54 AM
Wow! What a beautiful thing to see. I love that you were able to capture the green light and the stars at the same time.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2005 06:21:47 AM
How lucky you are to be able to capture these. Beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2005 09:18:26 PM
wish i lived somewhere to see stuff like this! hehe beautiful!!! 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2005 10:08:13 AM
I hope you win.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2005 09:39:47 AM
I wish they would occur more commonly in the south. Nice capture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2005 05:53:22 AM
Beautiful sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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