Great set with very sharp images. Number three is my favorite.

Regards
Bjørn

Thank you so much for your supportive comments!


I hope you get another chance to travel to Iceland, or indeed to Norway, and get to photograph the Lights from the mainland! If I am not completely mistaken there is solar maximum next autumn, and therefore the possibly of another four years with high Northern Lights activity, which is good Last night the temperature was about five degrees celsius, so there was not a lot of suffering involved staying out for 4-5 hours in the night. The only disadvantage with capturing the Northern Lights now is the lack of snow, which can really give these kinds of images an edge.

Bjørn

Yesterday night there was very high Northern Lights activity over Norway (the Northern Hemisphere), and fortunately I was down by the Trondheimsfjord with my camera. Pentax K20D and DA 12-24mm f4.


1. 800 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_23 by bjolester, on Flickr

2. 800 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_24 by bjolester, on Flickr

3. 800 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_25 by bjolester, on Flickr

4. 800 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_26 by bjolester, on Flickr

5. 800 ISO, 15 sec


NORDLYS_27 by bjolester, on Flickr

6. 800 ISO, 20 sec


NORDLYS_28 by bjolester, on Flickr

7. 800 ISO, 20 sec


NORDLYS_29 by bjolester, on Flickr

8. 800 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_30 by bjolester, on Flickr

9. 1600 ISO, 10 sec


NORDLYS_31 by bjolester, on Flickr


C&C are welcome!

Bjørn

Congratulations Howie! Have fun

Bjørn

A nice set of images! I particularly like the "rusty thing" and the door with the paint problem, number 5+6 in other words. I believe I also prefer the colour rendition of the images with the K-5 + Sigma combo.

Best regards
Bjørn

Thank you Phill! Norway is in many ways a great place to live, but mostly the weather is not like on the images above. The last few summers there has been a lot of rain and cold weather. This summer we only had a few weeks with temperatures above 20 degrees celsius, and many Norwegians fled to Spain, Greece and Italy.

Thanks Algi, I have sent them an e-mail!



I have attempted DIY on some lenses, and without exception I have done more damage than repair...

That is a creative idea, I will for now definitely experiment with some special effects shots!

Thank you all for your help!

Brilliant capture!

Bjørn

I have purchased a K15mm f3.5. The lens was marked with "severe balsam problem" and priced extremely low. My optimistic hope was that the shop could have been mistaken, that the problem was light fungus, oil or dirt inside the lens. When looking into the lens there is a perfect circlular pattern with "something", and test photos show heavy vignetting wide open and fully stopped down. Is it possible for any of you to diagnose the lens based on the images below? If it indeed is balsam separation, are there workshops that can fix it?

The lens is otherwise in mint condition, and is worth having anyway

I am grateful for any help!

Regards
Bjørn

[IMG]http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz50/bjolester/K15.jpg[/IMG]

f5.6
[IMG]http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz50/bjolester/K15_f56.jpg[/IMG]

f22
[IMG]http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz50/bjolester/K15_f22.jpg[/IMG]

Thank you Stuey! The white plastic on the bales are problematic, maybe I should start a "green bag on bales" petition

Regards
Bjørn