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p.1 #1 · Heart of extreme Cold


It was late December in 2014 when I decided to go hunting auroras along the road a bit south from Saariselkä area in Northern Finnish Lapland. As I left my apartment it was -29C. Bit by bit the temps kept falling until it was -36.7C and I began to have some thoughts about freezing diesel fuel. I decided to continue few kilometers and stopped by an abandoned farm location, which was mostly burned down by German troops during the withdrawal at the end of 2nd world war.

I got these photos at the location. Sony A7r + SAL Zeiss 16-35/2.8. Remember, one battery per one photo here.

#1 Old Barn

http://mjkoski.1g.fi/kuvat/Landscapes/UKK/_DSC3952.jpg/_full.jpg

#2 Old house, perhaps a cottage nowadays

http://mjkoski.1g.fi/kuvat/Landscapes/UKK/_DSC3960.jpg/_full.jpg

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Bonus image from another night. -35C & 10 meters per second wind gusts ~ -53C on your skin.

#3 - Yeti on the Walk

http://mjkoski.1g.fi/kuvat/Landscapes/UKK/_DSC3994.jpg/_full.jpg



Apr 20, 2016 at 06:43 AM
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p.1 #2 · Heart of extreme Cold


Like all three here, especially the last, but I would clone out the blue light source at the right hand side of the frame.
Douglas



Apr 20, 2016 at 06:54 AM
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p.1 #3 · Heart of extreme Cold


Your journey out to get these images sounds equally as impressive to the images themselves. Great work!


Apr 20, 2016 at 08:49 AM
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p.1 #4 · Heart of extreme Cold


The first image has the mood.


Apr 20, 2016 at 10:13 AM
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p.1 #5 · Heart of extreme Cold


#3 is a really interesting image! Nice.


Apr 20, 2016 at 11:51 AM
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p.1 #6 · Heart of extreme Cold


#1 is my favorite here, it works really well. In #2, I would correct the WA distortion of the cabin.

Jim



Apr 20, 2016 at 12:12 PM
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p.1 #7 · Heart of extreme Cold


Great photos! I like the yeti beast.


Apr 20, 2016 at 01:07 PM
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p.1 #8 · Heart of extreme Cold


Three great compositions and the lighting is spectacular. The third is very special.
Congrats on the captures.
Fred



Apr 20, 2016 at 02:27 PM
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p.1 #9 · Heart of extreme Cold


Thank you all for feedback. Now I could use some help here, how should I try correcting the perspective of this cottage in #2? If I correct perspective for the whole image I will lose so much of the edges it doesn't really work anymore. I have some ideas for blending in semi-corrected bottom of one image with the rest of uncorrected image but it will not be easy.

This is the kind of scene I would use 17mm TS-E for sure.

As for the bright star(?) in the Yeti image, I left that there on purpose (the snowy treant is heading in that direction). Maybe that idea failed a bit



Apr 20, 2016 at 05:10 PM
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p.1 #10 · Heart of extreme Cold


Nice photos, worth the effort. I don't turn off engines when it gets that cold.


Kent in SD



Apr 20, 2016 at 05:29 PM
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p.1 #11 · Heart of extreme Cold


kudos to your persistence. I gave into the warmth of my hotel lat time I tried this in Iceland.



Apr 20, 2016 at 06:01 PM
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p.1 #12 · Heart of extreme Cold


Beautiful! No nits! Thank you for sharing these!


Apr 20, 2016 at 06:31 PM
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p.1 #13 · Heart of extreme Cold


Fantastic images. #1 is my favorite of the three. Great job!


Apr 20, 2016 at 07:24 PM
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p.1 #14 · Heart of extreme Cold


Great set of images. I enjoyed all of them. My favorite is #3 with the mysterious Ent-like figure walking across the frame.


Apr 20, 2016 at 10:09 PM
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p.1 #15 · Heart of extreme Cold


Wow! Quite lovely aurora...
I like all three...and you are so brave out in the cold.



Apr 21, 2016 at 08:18 AM
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p.1 #16 · Heart of extreme Cold




MJKoski wrote:
Thank you all for feedback. Now I could use some help here, how should I try correcting the perspective of this cottage in #2? If I correct perspective for the whole image I will lose so much of the edges it doesn't really work anymore. I have some ideas for blending in semi-corrected bottom of one image with the rest of uncorrected image but it will not be easy.

This is the kind of scene I would use 17mm TS-E for sure.

As for the bright star(?) in the Yeti image, I left that there on purpose (the snowy treant is heading
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My uneducated suggestion would be to try Photoshop's Lens Correction tool (Lightroom has something similar). There might be a profile for your specific lens, or you can do a custom perspective change. You should be able to retain the edge of the image.



Apr 21, 2016 at 08:45 AM
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p.1 #17 · Heart of extreme Cold


Thank you very much for watching and commenting. I worked the cottage in #2 for few hours yesterday but the lines are so wonky that I lost major amount of image area and the detail what was left after noise reduction that I decided to let it be.

If someone is interested in Lapland War here is something for starters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War



Apr 23, 2016 at 07:13 AM
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p.1 #18 · Heart of extreme Cold


Lovely aurora colors!


Apr 23, 2016 at 11:44 PM





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