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Where To Go In Alaska To See Northern Lights

we still haven't found the bus and now 
with no lights and all these trees we're 
not able to find it 
       
all right we are on our way out to 
willow supposedly there is a old busted 
bus with bunch of graffiti on it and 
supposedly it's in the middle of nowhere 
we brought some LEDs and blow stags 
we're out here with brian barges 
all right we are still looking for this 
bus and the Sun is starting to fade some 
people call that a river I call that a 
back-up plan and now with no lights and 
all these trees we're not maybe we'll 
find it three tips for nighttime 
photography one check the weather check 
the moon 
check your location so that you know 
exactly where you're going before I get 
super dark out and you can't find it 
       


out in the middle of nowhere there's a 
bus why wouldn't there be don't want to 
touch that looks like a tetanus shot 
when you happen so we've got our LED 
lights inside we're working pretty well 
       
because our foreground is still too dark 
what he's doing this using his light to 
paint exposure wherever we need it 
       
Brian taught me this one take your glow 
stick 
toss it underneath the tripod that way 
when you're fumbling around in the dark 
you know where everybody's tripod is 
       
we got blessed enough to be able to get 
some Northern Lights tonight and you 
can't see with the video camera but it's 
out there I promise to lose that grass 
as foreground just focus on the grass 
itself so we gotta get some more light 
on the grass so Brian's gonna paint it a 
little bit I'm at eight seconds wide 
open in the lens 2.8 and 3200 ISO yeah 
that's pretty cool it's probably 
candidate for a shot of the night so far 
big daddy barges so we got lucky enough 
that the Northern Lights came out which 
is lucky for me because this is the 
first time I've ever been able to film 
the Northern Lights 
I was filming around 30-second exposures 
to try to get more light in Brian told 
me that the ISO sensitivity is the key 
so drop your shutter speed to like four 
to six seconds depending on how much the 
lights are moving 
the bros ears 
       
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Fall Time Waterfalls in Alaska


all right we're here at Falls Creek
Alaska and we're hunting for some
waterfalls

and I want to talk a little bit about
shooting long exposures for waterfalls
want to show how you can get different
looks with waterfalls so what you'll
need is a camera with a tripod ND filter
i have rain boots on xtratufs because
i'm going to get wet if your lens has
stabilization make sure to turn that off
if you're on a tripod you don't need
that stabilization and sometimes and
will kind of work against you and
introduce a little bit of blurring also
because I have a heavy hand I usually
set my two second timer so that I'm able
to click my shutter button and then step
away let the camera kind of come to a
rest before it snaps a picture

if your water is moving really fast you
can get away with a half second shutter
speed or even something a little less
but you want to make sure that you
preserve the detail in the rushing water
a lot of times if you shoot it really
long you'll lose some of the details in
the white and I want to keep those
details



so here's an example of what I'm talking
about on the left hand side we have a
picture taken with about a quarter
second shutter speed and on the right
hand side a two-second shutter speed so
the one on the left you can see there's
a little more detail it shows a little
bit more motion a little more action and
the one on the right is smoother more
ethereal either one will work it just
depends on what look you're going for
so it's actually dark enough out here
where I didn't need any ND filters I was
shooting at f-22 and anywhere between
1/10 of a second
one second up to two seconds but like I
said depending on how fast the water is
moving will dictate how much shutter
speed you want to apply to it like I
said more always isn't better and the
water that was moving today I was
keeping it right around bug I was
keeping it right around a second and
that was yielding the best results at
least for me it's always a preference
thing but just go out and try it try for
yourself and if you have any questions
just comment below