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From Valtari to Gallifrey

@raxacoricobouros / raxacoricobouros.tumblr.com

Sci-fi, Whovian, Sherlockian, born in the wrong place, design and music lover.
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Soaring is a short film showing what is keeping many photographers sleepless through the winter nights in the arctic landscapes and rural areas of northern Norway; the northern lights. The film was shot this autumn from late August to mid November in and around the areas of the city of Tromsø, as well as on the beautiful island of Senja. All sequences are realtime video, no timelapse used. This film shows the auroras how they really are in real world, not like in most timelapses where they flicker in ridiculous speeds over the screen. Most of the time auroras move really slow and majestically. However, occasionally when you have a strong display they may move really fast, way to fast to be reproduced by timelapse.

The full sequence showing the last three GIFs are amazing and almost unreal. It’s almost like watching the visualizer of your music player. Those bursts of pink are also surprising because pink is a rare color among aurorae; even rarer is how vivid they look even without timelapse photography. I always assumed that aurorae can only be best viewed with long exposure and never real-time.

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