Auroras reflected in lake in Thingvellir national park in Iceland.
On March 17th I checked the aurora forecast for the day because this day had unusually good weather with clear skies and no wind which is unusual for Iceland this winter seeing as we have had over 40 major storms since november 2014. In general the weather has been awful this winter. So I was very surpriced to see that the aurora forecast was exceptionally good for that night, in fact I have never ever seen it like that day. So my brother and I decided we would take a trip to the Thingvellir national park that night and atempt to photograph the Northern lights.
We arrived around 9 pm and the place was crowded with tourists all coming to see the Auroras which were showing faintly at that time. Between 10 and 11 pm the lights suddenly exploded and the sky was dancing with the displays. Having lived my entire life here and seen the auroras many times this was something special and I have never seen them as massive as that night.
I used a Samyang 14mm F2.8 manual lens set to f2.8. My camera a Canon EOS 6d was set to iso 1600. The lights were so bright that my usual exposure time at these settings completely burned out all the highlights so I had to decrease the time to get a correct exposure.
I dont think that a single photo I captured that night was bad and I think it was almost impossible not get a great shot during the peak of the aurora display.
