Photographing the Northern Lights Through Yellowstone’s Thermal Pools

I had never seen the Northern Lights until this past April 23rd when some serious luck was on my side: I was at Yellowstone National Park with Geoff Coalter, from Nikon, the night before a shoot I was producing forI was super excited but a little bit nervous, as I had never produced a press shoot for Nikon and this one was big —as well as Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake, two YouTubers that I had seen only virtually for years.

Evan picked me and Geoff up right after the sun went down and we headed into the park. Recently, there had been lots of clouds, but on that night, they seemed to part at the right time to let the light show in. I had to quickly get the Z8 set up in the darkness. I had just been handed the camera and none of the settings were mine. Thank goodness for the illuminated buttons and the starlight view mode! The lights danced above springs, bringing out different colors not only in the sky, but in the hydrothermal pools.

I put my camera on vivid mode and shot some long exposure of around eight seconds. I had heard that the Northern lights come out more brilliant when seen through a camera, and wow, I now was experiencing just that. Even looking at the LCD screen on the back of the Z8, the greens were so intense. With a long exposure, even more colors came out.

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