The Land Of The Northern Lights

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This video was initially launched on Vimeo on March 24th 2011.

I know there are illegal copies on YouTube, this is THE ORIGINAL, and I am the producer and copyright holder of this film. If you see a copy of it, please tip me.

Anyway, this was my first video project.

It is a timelapse video of the Northern Lights. All sequences are shot in or close to Tromsø in Northern Norway.

I spent over 6months collecting footage for this, I shot approx 50.000 stills to choose from in making this video. A goal for me has been to try to preserve the real-time speed of the northern lights, or come as close as possible, and present it the way I experienced it, instead of the northern lights just flashing over the sky in the blink of an eye. It may work on other time-lapse videos with fast moving clouds and sunsets etc, but with the northern lights in focus, it should be presented in it's true speed to reflect her beauty, imo. In the video I have put together a collection of slow moving auroras in the woods, over the mounatins, in the city, in the foreshore, reflected in the sea, with some of the most spectacular and strongest auroral outbreaks seen in many years. Included here is a coronal outbreak, in which I am particularly happy to present, since it is very difficult to get on stills, even worse on "film".

I got a fantastic soundtrack made for the video by local musical talent in Tromsø; Per Wollen. A Huge thanks goes to you Per obviously! The audio track "Aurora in the sky" can be found on iTunes.

A huge thank goes to Jay and http://www.dynamicperception.com/ for their awesome time-lapse gear who made some of the sequences in this video possible!

The video shown here is 1280x720. It may be also available in 1920x1080 and Digital Cinema HD 4K. Contact me for higher resolution. Video may not be used commercially or public without permission.

Hope you like the video, more info about me:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/salomonsen/
http://www.facebook.com/arcticlightphoto
http://www.arcticlightphoto.no (my web is still under constructing, please be patient :) )

Gear I used to put this together:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 24 L 1.4 Mark II (My precious)
Canon EF 16-35 L 2.8 Mark II
Samyang 14mm 2.8
Nikon 14-24 2.8G AF S
Tokina 11-16 2.8
Meade DS-2000 w 497 Autostar
Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly/Rail w MX2

Best regards
Ole

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• aurora
• aurora borealis
• northern lights
• arctic light
• norway
• tromso
• tromsø
• lights
• astro
• astronomy

[AmyYoYeomans]

So beautiful

[claussvensby]

It`s just amazing!

[chaminda467]

The best music and I love it I wish you

[NainaiTH]

And people wonder why I love my country.

[70561ulyana]

Я очарована!!

[penolva]

I wish you could tell me how to take such amazing photographs for when I come to Tromso in 5 weeks time. I can't even get the night sky. I have a Nikon D300. Pen

[ScenicMotion]

The best timelapse of the auroras I`ve ever seen

[bcstewart1000]

amazing video