Had my own chance a month ago, and they are a pain to get a good photo of without a proper camera. Thats the best i had from a particularly strong one according to some locals. Most other pics are just to “moved”. Best advice when using mobile seems to be to set for night mode/long exposure, make one or two attempts, don’t even bother with video unless is brighter then streetlamps and then drop the equipment and just take it in. Spent far to much time trying to get a national geographic class of a shots…
Longer exposure is the trick, and framing the shot away from other light sources. The camera doesn’t really matter, as long as you can manually adjust things (try pro mode on a phone), and have it mounted on something that won’t shake during the exposure.
With that, aurora photos very often aren’t as they would appear to the eye because of that long exposure. They can still get reasonably bright though.
Had my own chance a month ago, and they are a pain to get a good photo of without a proper camera. Thats the best i had from a particularly strong one according to some locals. Most other pics are just to “moved”. Best advice when using mobile seems to be to set for night mode/long exposure, make one or two attempts, don’t even bother with video unless is brighter then streetlamps and then drop the equipment and just take it in. Spent far to much time trying to get a national geographic class of a shots…
Well to be fair that‘s a pretty sic pic you got there
Longer exposure is the trick, and framing the shot away from other light sources. The camera doesn’t really matter, as long as you can manually adjust things (try pro mode on a phone), and have it mounted on something that won’t shake during the exposure.
With that, aurora photos very often aren’t as they would appear to the eye because of that long exposure. They can still get reasonably bright though.