Vincent Brady's video: Aurora Panoramas Acoustic Borealis 4k 360

360 Degree Aurora Borealis Panorama Time-Lapse & Acoustic Fingerpicking Guitar Instrumental. Video created by Vincent Brady over the course of a 5 week stay in Iceland. Music written and recorded by Brandon McCoy, who's song was specially crafted for this project. Check out my other works, Fireflies & Planetary Panoramas on my Youtube channel and website: http://www.vincentbrady.com Stay up to date by liking my Facebook photo page: https://www.facebook.com/VincentBradyPhoto Brandon McCoy's acoustic instrumentals are phenomenal. It just so happens to work out that the best music for the my time-lapses comes from my best friend of 10+ years. Help fund Brandon's campaign for a new guitar and studio recording! Download the demo and name your price to help! http://brandonmccoy1.bandcamp.com/ Like Brandon's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BrandonMcCoyMusic YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/brandonmccoymusic After shooting the successful 360 panorama Earth & Space 'Planetary Panoramas' time-lapse, we all knew the next step was to get under the aurora borealis. So consider this a sequel! It was amazing to be in Iceland for an extended amount of time for such a project. It took a lot a waiting for clear skies paired with a little luck of aurora hunting. Iceland is a photographers dream as the entire country feels like another planet! All the scenes in this video incorporate water in the shot. I didn't do that on purpose but auroras flowing like water makes for a good theme. Locations of shots as they appear. 0:16 - Seljalandsfoss - I'm not sure why the waterfall was lit with hot pink lights this night but it made for a nice contrast against the green lights coming in. 0:35 - Hvítserkur - I setup my cameras in the black sand during low tide near the bottom of the walking dinosaur. As the tide gently came in my cameras were capturing the water and the flow of auroras across the sky. 1:00 - Skógafoss - I Wanted to see as many reflections of auroras as I could so I setup my camera rig in the moving water at the bottom of the mighty waterfall. The auroras flowed across the sky just like the river I was in. October 1:42 - Lake Myvatn - A quiet peaceful night in north Iceland. The stillness of the water was highly photogenic as the stars and lights streaked across the clear sky. 2:06 - Gatklettur Sea Arch - A short hike from the fishing village Arnarstapi leads to eroding lava formation in the sea. As waves crashed against the arch the auroras gained intensity in the sky. 2:40 - Kirkjufell - One of the best displays I witnessed on the trip was at Iceland's iconic Church Mountain on Sunday morning. It was incredible to watch the lights at times seem violent as the pulsed across the sky. The gentle waterfall came down the mountain and flowed into the bay as the moon was rising. 3:03 - Skógafoss - The same shot sequence just edited in a different way, with a really cool trick! 3:27 - Jökulsárlón - Moonlight lit up ice blocks in the glacier lagoon as quiet auroras swayed across the sky. 3:54 - Kirkjufell - Similar location on a different night, as auroras were much quieter. Each shoot is a lot of work with using 4 cameras. Between charging 4 camera batteries, unloading 40gigs of photos, scouting locations, shooting through the night and repeating. I mainly used the car battery to charge batteries and slept in the back of the rental car the whole time too as I was always on the hunt for the aurora. Then returned home for the post-processing stitching of the panoramas, editing, tweaking, stacking, and rendering took a lot of time as well! Equipment Used - 4 Canon Rebel t2i's - 4 Rokinon 8mm Fisheye Lenses Software - Magic Lantern for camera hacking - PTGui for panorama stitching - StarStax for stacking images - LRTimelapse for smoothing flickers - Photoshop CC for all things photo editing - Premiere Pro CC for compiling and rendering final video Brandon's Music - Martin guitar that he has beat the snot out of - Garageband for quick down and dirty recording Will be working on editing these into a 360 video player for virtual reality next. Stay Tuned! Thanks for stopping by! Vincent Brady vbradyphoto@aol.com