Once again your images and time lapse are stunning. So many great ideas for me to try with my new OM1-2. I tried some shots at our cabin last week but I did it all wrong. Also our dock faces south so I got some good views of the west/north west, but our giant pines block the north. Never thought of time lapse and didn't use starry sky because aurora is not stars 🤣 Keep these coming please!!
I moved from South Carolina to Costa Rica about four months ago. Never would have dreamed I would have gotten the chance to see the aurora in SC, but I have seen lots of photos from folks back there who caught it recently. I definitely won't be seeing it at the latitude of Costa Rica!
Awesome Aurora talk and video! Thank you so much. The OM-5 also has Starry AF which I used with my 12mm lens at the lake for Friday's Aurora show. Although I live in Mass where it was visible, I was in CT for the weekend. I did not know how to do time lapse, but now I may be able to try next time thanks to your Aurora video today! I always learn so much from you! Thank You Emilie!
Hi Emilie, thanks for the tutorial and the examples you showed. If you have a nice sciene like you had on your single shots, depending how bright the science is, you have to shot the foreground with correct exposure, which you can blend later to your images.
I totally klutzed out and got some nice photos by accident. Stepped out onto my front porch with my camera and figured to slow the shutter speed, raise the ISO and adjust white balance but it was my first attempt and I was really, pardon the pun, shooting in the dark. It would have been better with a tripod but I honestly didn’t expect to have any success since the aurora couldn’t be seen with the naked eye from where I was. So glad you posted this. I will feel more confident next attempt. I personally don’t have an OM System camera but I do appreciate your channel. Thanks for all you do.
I am glad you were able to still capture some photos. I think many of the settings I share can apply to any camera. Good luck for the next Aurora. I hope you can see it with the naked eye too.
I’ve used the the ‘live time’ feature in my em1 mk lll you can see the image “develop” On the EVF then stop the exposure when you happy with exposure shown amazing!🙂
Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. I’m new to OM systems having migrated from Pentax, I have the OM 5 with only two lenses, the 12-45 Pro and a used 14-150 II so I’m going to have to play around with settings until I can afford a fast prime. On the plus side Im only 5 minutes away from the North Sea coast in 🇬🇧 UK.
Great, and very helpful video. I went out, saw nothing, but took my phone and took a picture, and sure enough, there was the Aurora. So, I grabbed my OM-5, set for starry sky and what I thought were good settings using my 8-25 f4 lens, but I’d never practiced any night sky photography before and it was a total failure. Clearly I need to shoot some night skies and get used to it. Maybe next time!
Great tips, I enjoyed your video. For starry AF I use it with silent shutter but I enabled the focus confirmation beep so I can know the Starry AF was successful otherwise you have to watch the LCD for the steady green dot. It is in Camera 1 menu, 7. Drive Mode, silent settings. I usually have the focus beep turned off so I had to find this for my astro setup. I redo the Starry AF after a while in case the lens cooling changes things or I accidentally move the focus ring. I think the dark frame noise reduction only works with mechanical shutter so you would be wearing out the shutter using this for taking 100s of shots with time lapse? I did go out on 10th October here in the UK, I saw the first peak of the aurora and got some shots and missed the later peak as I was inside warming up! But I had left my other camera upstairs doing a time lapse through the window "just in case" so I had it on there 🙂
Thanks for the great tips! I kind of did a lot things well intuitively and got some of my most stunning shots at my local boat ramp with perfect reflection in the sea and little town lights that couldn't overpower the roaring aurora! I did make one mistake, I was stunned by the possibility to take 8s exposures with ISO200!!! and F1.8 that Intook way too few exposures! With ISO3200 (still nothing for the OM-1) I could have probably taken sub 1-second exposures. Well I live in a great place (Tasmania), so hope to see a few more this year, but will follow your tips and try to take a timelapse this time too 😀
@@EmilieTce soir, je vais essayer de prendre la comète tsuchinshan atlas, j'espère que le ciel sera dégagé🤞 Émilie si tu peux me donner les bons réglages stp ☺️
Hi Emily. Really enjoyed the video. Great time lapse. However, you mentioned pressing the AEL button to set up focus. The manual states that it is the AF-ON button. Just checking because this type of photography is new to me.
Thanks for the info. I neglected the iso change and had muttled results. If it's happening again here in Maine I'll follow your advice. (I'm usually set for macro, so I don't usually change some settings,) Quite different photography.
Fantastic information👍👍 Thursday night was absolutely incredible! I captured a little with my OM1 but I was not prepared for night shooting which you just cautioned against😂 I did shoot a lot with my phone as I'm more familiar with using it at night. I really need a wider and faster lens for my camera to change that. Out of curiosity, how wide was the lens you used? I've been thinking about the 17mm 1.7 but am very tempted to go ultra wide. I need to find a better location for when they come back and also with a western view for sunsets and the comet that's visible just after sunset. I quite happy to hear OM workspace will compile a timelapse! I gave up on interval shooting with other cameras after struggling to get the results I wanted. Thanks so much for the helpful info and sharing your results!
I think you will be super happy with OM Workspace for your timelapse. I have the 12mm f.2 and the fisheye 8mm f1.8. Both are fantastic lenses but the 17mm would be another great lens. Hope you can capture the next aurora with your OM-1!
I happened to be at a Photography workshop at Taliesin (Spring Green WI) last year during the Perseids meteor shower, so figured out (mostly) the Starry AF settings at that time. It was EXTREMELY dark there (virtually zero light pollution) so was a great place for celestial photography. Unfortunately, I thought I had to start Starry AF with the AEL button for each shot, and didn't use the interval settings at all. Not the most efficient way to catch unpredictable meteors, since I varied my exposures between 15 and 25 seconds for each shot! I had better luck this year and over a 2 or 3 hour period managed to get one good meteor shot. Unfortunately, at 2:15 am 12 August, an annoying red glow started appearing in my shots. I had no idea it was the Aurora because any shots of it I had seen in the past were only green color. I assumed the camera was capturing some light pollution near my home in PA, because I couldn't see it with the naked eye. I had much better results this time (last Thursday evening) and have now saved my Aurora settings under C on my OM5 mode dial. The only one of your tips I needed to add was the CWB. Thanks for the tips! Edit to add that I used my Lumix 9mm f1.7 lens.
my brother got some in mid-texas.. i didn't bother because there's a refinery to the north. That being said, I do hope to catch the next one! thank you for that setup tips! One question I still have is regarding the IS. I know most camera manufacturers would say to turn this off for long exposures from a tripod. Is that something I should do with OM?
Hi Emily. Fantastic video. I learned some new things 👍 I have one question about time lapse. It’s something I want to try next time. You set it to one second intervals. I guess your exposure time was also set to one second? If the aurora is not so bright and you need two seconds exposure for a photo, world you then set your time lapse to two seconds also?
Great questions. I will keep the same settings for my timelapse. Just a one-second interval. I will set the 2-second exposure in my camera. I hope that makes sense.
Thanks so much Emilee, yes, I was in a dark sky area for Thursday's n.lites show. I should have turned down shutter opening from 5 sec to 2-3 seconds when the lites were more active! Live and learn,.... Next time! I do have my C3 set for n.lites. Love starry autofocus...a game changer
I'm looking out the window at the 100% cloud cover. I ain't shootin' no auroras, comets, big or little dippers, flying saucers, or anything tonight. 😡 (Keeping this vid for future reference though)
Was up in Ivalo, Finland for the aurora, followed your suggestion for a Time-Lapse. Took 5 series of 100 shots each. Could not figure out how to process in OM Workspace, so.. processes them all in Lightroom Classic. Finally was able to put together my video in Workspace . Really easy. I now have 6 videos from the 500 shots. Made the base video at 5 FPS. The finals are exported at 15FPS, Normal, Fine and Super Fine and 30FPS , Normal , Fine and Super Fine. Don’t see any real difference in the 6 videos. Are these the best export setting or should I be trying other options? My next step will be to take the video into iMovie and add headers, credits, breaks, transitions and music. May try some addition editing on the video tones , etc. Can you provide suggestions and/or guidance on successful options?
Hi Emilie, I live in Southern Germany an we had KP 8 last thursday - but a cloudy sky. So we didn't see anything. On friday night it was a clear sky and KP5. I was waiting for two hours in the field around midnight - but again nothing happened. Bad luck. But hopefully there will be more auroras during the next months which are also visible in our region here. And thanks for your tips (even if some OM-ambassadors like Matt Suess and Peter Baumgarten are recommending different settings for the ISO and shutter-speed) One question: You are shooting with the 8mm fisheye like me. But do you turn off the fisheye-mode so you will have a flat horizon? Best regards, Klaus
Thank you. I hope you get to catch the aurora in the future. I know a lot of photographers have different settings and then as I said, in the field, you will have to readjust. Matt and peter are amazing night photographers and I learn how to shoot night photography watching videos class from Peter. For the fish eye I turn off the fish eye compensation or you can also do that in post processing.
Just seeing the Aurora Borealis, or the Aurora Australis, is so on my bucket list.
Hope you see it!
Up here in Northern Ireland I managed to get some really nice shots - Great video - that's a great tip using the Custom buttons! Merci! Dave.
Congrats on getting great shots of the aurora. Hoping we get some more shows in 2025 too.
Once again your images and time lapse are stunning. So many great ideas for me to try with my new OM1-2. I tried some shots at our cabin last week but I did it all wrong. Also our dock faces south so I got some good views of the west/north west, but our giant pines block the north. Never thought of time lapse and didn't use starry sky because aurora is not stars 🤣 Keep these coming please!!
Thank you! best of luck for the next aurora!
Great tutorial about shooting the aurora borealis! The time lapse was positively stunning! Mesmerizing! Looking forward to your next adventures!
Thank you so much!
These are some great tips! Especially the idea of doing a timelapse to display the aurora more effectively! Thanks so much for a timely video!
Thank you!
I moved from South Carolina to Costa Rica about four months ago. Never would have dreamed I would have gotten the chance to see the aurora in SC, but I have seen lots of photos from folks back there who caught it recently. I definitely won't be seeing it at the latitude of Costa Rica!
Awesome Aurora talk and video! Thank you so much. The OM-5 also has Starry AF which I used with my 12mm lens at the lake for Friday's Aurora show. Although I live in Mass where it was visible, I was in CT for the weekend. I did not know how to do time lapse, but now I may be able to try next time thanks to your Aurora video today! I always learn so much from you! Thank You Emilie!
Thank you so much Diane! And great photos from you for the aurora, I saw them on facebook. Have a fun time with the timelapse function next time.
Very helpful. Thank you
You are welcome
Hi Emilie, thanks for the tutorial and the examples you showed. If you have a nice sciene like you had on your single shots, depending how bright the science is, you have to shot the foreground with correct exposure, which you can blend later to your images.
Wonderful video. So many great tips. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
I totally klutzed out and got some nice photos by accident. Stepped out onto my front porch with my camera and figured to slow the shutter speed, raise the ISO and adjust white balance but it was my first attempt and I was really, pardon the pun, shooting in the dark. It would have been better with a tripod but I honestly didn’t expect to have any success since the aurora couldn’t be seen with the naked eye from where I was. So glad you posted this. I will feel more confident next attempt. I personally don’t have an OM System camera but I do appreciate your channel. Thanks for all you do.
I am glad you were able to still capture some photos. I think many of the settings I share can apply to any camera. Good luck for the next Aurora. I hope you can see it with the naked eye too.
My nephew got some great shots for theseiPhone.
Beautiful photos and Timelapse sequences.
Thank you. Did you see the aurora where you are?
@@EmilieT I sure did! Amazing!
@@ImageMaven and you had great tips about focusing on stars in your September video!
hi Emilie
thank you for this fun and informative video. beautiful photos and time labs👍❤️
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much Emilie (and yes know your camera). /Per (Denmark)
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Terrific job.
Thank you!
Thanks! Wonderful tips and good practices!
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the support.
I’ve used the the ‘live time’ feature in my em1 mk lll you can see the image “develop” On the EVF then stop the exposure when you happy with exposure shown amazing!🙂
OM Workspace for timelapse! Killer tip!
It is worth the wait!
Thank you Emilie. This was very helpful and inspiring ❤️🙌
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. I’m new to OM systems having migrated from Pentax, I have the OM 5 with only two lenses, the 12-45 Pro and a used 14-150 II so I’m going to have to play around with settings until I can afford a fast prime. On the plus side Im only 5 minutes away from the North Sea coast in 🇬🇧 UK.
Welcome to the OM family! You will have a lot of fun with the OM-5 and those two lenses. Great choices!
Great, and very helpful video. I went out, saw nothing, but took my phone and took a picture, and sure enough, there was the Aurora. So, I grabbed my OM-5, set for starry sky and what I thought were good settings using my 8-25 f4 lens, but I’d never practiced any night sky photography before and it was a total failure. Clearly I need to shoot some night skies and get used to it. Maybe next time!
Sorry to hear. I hope this video was helpful and next time you can catch the aurora with your OM-5!
Merci Émilie pour ces superbes aurores boréales, j'aime beaucoup.
Merci Jacques!
Great instructional video. An observation Emilie. If you are shooting in RAW, then the white balance is irrelevant isn't it
Beautiful shots--thanks for the tips
Thank you!
Beautiful work.
Thank you!
Great tips, I enjoyed your video. For starry AF I use it with silent shutter but I enabled the focus confirmation beep so I can know the Starry AF was successful otherwise you have to watch the LCD for the steady green dot. It is in Camera 1 menu, 7. Drive Mode, silent settings. I usually have the focus beep turned off so I had to find this for my astro setup. I redo the Starry AF after a while in case the lens cooling changes things or I accidentally move the focus ring. I think the dark frame noise reduction only works with mechanical shutter so you would be wearing out the shutter using this for taking 100s of shots with time lapse? I did go out on 10th October here in the UK, I saw the first peak of the aurora and got some shots and missed the later peak as I was inside warming up! But I had left my other camera upstairs doing a time lapse through the window "just in case" so I had it on there 🙂
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Thank you so much! I hope you will find my videos useful.
Your so good
Thanks for the great tips! I kind of did a lot things well intuitively and got some of my most stunning shots at my local boat ramp with perfect reflection in the sea and little town lights that couldn't overpower the roaring aurora! I did make one mistake, I was stunned by the possibility to take 8s exposures with ISO200!!! and F1.8 that Intook way too few exposures! With ISO3200 (still nothing for the OM-1) I could have probably taken sub 1-second exposures. Well I live in a great place (Tasmania), so hope to see a few more this year, but will follow your tips and try to take a timelapse this time too 😀
Sounds like an idyllic place! Hope you get a great timelapse next time!
Bonjour Émilie 😊 Tu peux créer aussi une vidéo : comment prendre une comète en photo ! Time-lapse, etc... 😉
Ahah oui c'est le bon moment!
@@EmilieTce soir, je vais essayer de prendre la comète tsuchinshan atlas, j'espère que le ciel sera dégagé🤞 Émilie si tu peux me donner les bons réglages stp ☺️
@@cgael Ah j'espere que tu vas réussir à la capturer!
Thankyou, great video
Thank you!
Hi Emily. Really enjoyed the video. Great time lapse. However, you mentioned pressing the AEL button to set up focus. The manual states that it is the AF-ON button. Just checking because this type of photography is new to me.
You are right AF-ON. AEL was on my older camera. Good catch.
Thanks for the info
Happy to help!
beautiful, thanks so much.
Thank you for watching!
❤love the video
Thank you Calvin!
Thanks for the info. I neglected the iso change and had muttled results. If it's happening again here in Maine I'll follow your advice. (I'm usually set for macro, so I don't usually change some settings,) Quite different photography.
Ah yes very different settings. I hope you can get the aurora next time!
Fantastic information👍👍 Thursday night was absolutely incredible! I captured a little with my OM1 but I was not prepared for night shooting which you just cautioned against😂 I did shoot a lot with my phone as I'm more familiar with using it at night. I really need a wider and faster lens for my camera to change that. Out of curiosity, how wide was the lens you used? I've been thinking about the 17mm 1.7 but am very tempted to go ultra wide.
I need to find a better location for when they come back and also with a western view for sunsets and the comet that's visible just after sunset.
I quite happy to hear OM workspace will compile a timelapse! I gave up on interval shooting with other cameras after struggling to get the results I wanted.
Thanks so much for the helpful info and sharing your results!
I think you will be super happy with OM Workspace for your timelapse. I have the 12mm f.2 and the fisheye 8mm f1.8. Both are fantastic lenses but the 17mm would be another great lens. Hope you can capture the next aurora with your OM-1!
I happened to be at a Photography workshop at Taliesin (Spring Green WI) last year during the Perseids meteor shower, so figured out (mostly) the Starry AF settings at that time. It was EXTREMELY dark there (virtually zero light pollution) so was a great place for celestial photography. Unfortunately, I thought I had to start Starry AF with the AEL button for each shot, and didn't use the interval settings at all. Not the most efficient way to catch unpredictable meteors, since I varied my exposures between 15 and 25 seconds for each shot! I had better luck this year and over a 2 or 3 hour period managed to get one good meteor shot. Unfortunately, at 2:15 am 12 August, an annoying red glow started appearing in my shots. I had no idea it was the Aurora because any shots of it I had seen in the past were only green color. I assumed the camera was capturing some light pollution near my home in PA, because I couldn't see it with the naked eye. I had much better results this time (last Thursday evening) and have now saved my Aurora settings under C on my OM5 mode dial. The only one of your tips I needed to add was the CWB. Thanks for the tips! Edit to add that I used my Lumix 9mm f1.7 lens.
Glad the video was helpful and happy shooting! Photography is a constant learning process but it is so much fun :)
my brother got some in mid-texas.. i didn't bother because there's a refinery to the north. That being said, I do hope to catch the next one! thank you for that setup tips! One question I still have is regarding the IS. I know most camera manufacturers would say to turn this off for long exposures from a tripod. Is that something I should do with OM?
You should but I don't :)
Hi Emily. Fantastic video. I learned some new things 👍
I have one question about time lapse. It’s something I want to try next time. You set it to one second intervals. I guess your exposure time was also set to one second? If the aurora is not so bright and you need two seconds exposure for a photo, world you then set your time lapse to two seconds also?
Great questions. I will keep the same settings for my timelapse. Just a one-second interval. I will set the 2-second exposure in my camera. I hope that makes sense.
@@EmilieT ah I see now. So it takes a 2 second exposure. Then wait one second, then take another 2 second exposure and so on.
@@richwilliamsphotography That is correct.
Thanks so much Emilee, yes, I was in a dark sky area for Thursday's n.lites show. I should have turned down shutter opening from 5 sec to 2-3 seconds when the lites were more active! Live and learn,.... Next time! I do have my C3 set for n.lites. Love starry autofocus...a game changer
I'm looking out the window at the 100% cloud cover. I ain't shootin' no auroras, comets, big or little dippers, flying saucers, or anything tonight. 😡
(Keeping this vid for future reference though)
Same where I am. Hopefully clear skies in the coming days so i can capture the comet.
Great video! How is it possible to capture HiRes 50MP/14bit with Interval capture at ISO higher than 1600?
Your bag must be heavy with all that kit!
Was up in Ivalo, Finland for the aurora, followed your suggestion for a Time-Lapse. Took 5 series of 100 shots each. Could not figure out how to process in OM Workspace, so.. processes them all in Lightroom Classic. Finally was able to put together my video in Workspace . Really easy. I now have 6 videos from the 500 shots. Made the base video at 5 FPS. The finals are exported at 15FPS, Normal, Fine and Super Fine and 30FPS , Normal , Fine and Super Fine. Don’t see any real difference in the 6 videos. Are these the best export setting or should I be trying other options?
My next step will be to take the video into iMovie and add headers, credits, breaks, transitions and music. May try some addition editing on the video tones , etc. Can you provide suggestions and/or guidance on successful options?
Do you defish the 1.8 in camera?
yes sometimes. I like OM workspace to defish the lens.
Hi Emilie, I live in Southern Germany an we had KP 8 last thursday - but a cloudy sky. So we didn't see anything. On friday night it was a clear sky and KP5. I was waiting for two hours in the field around midnight - but again nothing happened. Bad luck. But hopefully there will be more auroras during the next months which are also visible in our region here. And thanks for your tips (even if some OM-ambassadors like Matt Suess and Peter Baumgarten are recommending different settings for the ISO and shutter-speed)
One question: You are shooting with the 8mm fisheye like me. But do you turn off the fisheye-mode so you will have a flat horizon?
Best regards, Klaus
Thank you. I hope you get to catch the aurora in the future. I know a lot of photographers have different settings and then as I said, in the field, you will have to readjust. Matt and peter are amazing night photographers and I learn how to shoot night photography watching videos class from Peter. For the fish eye I turn off the fish eye compensation or you can also do that in post processing.
Remote shutter works from the Oi share app , correct ?
That is correct!