If you are lucky enough to catch Northern lights together with humpback whales, don’t forget to bring a tripod for your camera.
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Northern lights can be seen in the region from September to March.
An astonishing new video is making the rounds on the Internet: a pod of humpback whales is captured hunting for herring while the Northern Lights shimmer overhead, a truly captivating moment in nature.
“Northern lights” is a common name used to refer to a natural atmospheric phenomenon called aurora borealis, which typically occurs in the northern hemisphere of the Earth.
Regarding his latest project, Albrigsten told NRK that as he was conducting the equipment tests, “I came suddenly upon a bunch of humpback whales that were playing under the Northern Lights”.
The collision between these two natural forces produces charged particle currents in the sky that eventually flow along magnetic force lines found in the Polar Regions.
Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere), where their energy is lost. The photographer shot the video while he was testing his new camera equipment in the northern Norwegian island of Kvaløya.
In varied places, reminiscent of Alaska or Greenland, the Northern Lights are principally seen throughout dusk of the 12 months.
Have a SLR (single-lens reflex camera) that allows for manual settings.
A rule of thumb is to setup the digicam at 800 ISO (gentle sensitivity) and get the aperture absolutely open.
A lot of the people wishes to use the lowest possible ISO and slow shutter speeds.
According to Albrigtsen, the photographer, the experience was a once in a lifetime experience as he said he saw the whales playing under the lights two nights in a row. And voila, he was profitable. “After a few hours I almost gave up, but then they turned up again”.
Each year photographers goes into deeper lengths to shoot the colorful auroras that ranges from red, to yellow, to green, to blue and even violet.
Within the footage, the magnificent creature plunges near the shore with their splashing silhouetted in opposition to the inexperienced glowing skies.
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If you are planning to book a trip to Norway to capture whales, Albrigsten offers a few photography tips.
