Scott Kroeker
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 Steep Rock Sunset and Aurora | |
Last week Thursday and fellow photographer and I took a 3.5 hour drive to one my favourite places in the province to photograph, Steep Rock. We arrived about an hour before sunset. It turned out to be one of the most incredible sunsets I\'ve ever seen. Difficult to photograph though! With aurora in the forecast we stayed til nightfall. Though the aurora was out it wasn\'t super intense and when I decided to try a star trail photo clouds rolled in. So we left around 2am. I didn\'t get to sleep til after 6am! Still trying to catch up on sleep! 
The first image is a single exposure with a GND filter. I wish I would have taken an underexposed shot for recover the blown sun! I was too overwhelmed by the light to think straight! DOH!
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Next is a multi image panorama 2 exposure blend taken just after the sun dropped below the horizon. This has recently become my favourite time to shoot into the \"sun\".
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While waiting for it to get dark, the aurora to show up and the clouds to clear I took this 11min+ exposure.
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This is probably the best aurora shot for the night for me. Again, it wasnt a great show and pales in comparison to the aurora I shot there a year ago. Still a few clouds in the sky but to me it added to the image. This is a 2 image blend for sky ground. I had it all in one exposure but to keep the noise at bay I took a longer exposure of the ground.
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This was my failed start trail attempt. The clouds, in the case, didn\'t help!!!! Oh well, cant win them all! Or any! :S
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Either way, hope you enjoy!
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