Photographing the Aurora Borealis: How to Shoot the Northern Lights

Photographing the Aurora Borealis: How to Shoot the Northern Lights

Photographing the Aurora Borealis: How to Shoot the Northern Lights

Photographing the Aurora Borealis: How to Shoot the Northern Lights

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Overview

Award-winning photographer and accomplished instructor Andy Long provides a comprehensive guide to photographing the Aurora Borealis. It, readers will learn everything they need to know about photographing this phenomenon—along with some very special techniques designed to help kick their image-making up to the next level. Long covers all the details from simply understanding the aurora and figuring out when and where to shoot, to picking the right gear to maximize your success, to processing your digital files after the shoot too maximize your results. You’ll learn how to capture the moon, star trails, and Milky Way in your images of the aurora—and even how to produce dazzling time-lapse images. Also covered are practical matters, like coping with long, cold, night-time shoots (and the equipment problems that can accompany them) and optimizing camera settings to reduce noise, maximize detail, and enhance/downplay lens distortion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682032091
Publisher: Amherst Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/20/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 461,843
File size: 108 MB
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About the Author

Andy Long is an award-winning photographer and writer who devotes his photography to the beauty of the world around us. As a workshop leader since 1994, Andy likes helping people explore new areas and go home with a memorable experience along with great images in addition to having learned more about photography. As a professional photographer since 1982, Andy emphasizes a unique eye in capturing images of our world and passing this on to those who attend his workshops. Andy’s work has appeared in more than 40 publications and books as well as in a National Geographic television show.

Among the places work has appeared include Birder’s World, Bugle, Outdoor Life, View (Germany), Colorado Outdoors, Alaska Magazine, Audubon field guides, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Photographer, Outdoor Photographer and in ads for Audubon. He is a past winner in the Audubon Top 100 Images of the Year, Audubon Share the View and Nature’s Best Wilderness Forever competitions along with being named RoseWater Network Photographer of the Year. He resides in Lakewood, CO.
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