The Sun & Us is a tribute to human exploration and scientific inquiry.

This video is a remix of images from two video installations put together by Semiconductor Films. They participated with NASA and several other research institutions, to gain access to amazing raw image data from satelites orbiting the sun and observatories here on Earth.

You can watch Semiconductor’s videos on vimeo:
Brilliant Noise: vimeo.com/1284717
Black Rain: vimeo.com/3921306

I took shots from both of these, added color and edited them to the song “Us” by Regina Spektor.

Enjoy and stay curious!

My first attempt at a timelapse of Aurora Borealis.

Shot on a Canon 7D, with a 30mm f.1,4 Sigma lens.
Camera on manual mode: 5 second shutter, aperture at f1.4, ISO 200. Manual white balance.

Recorded in Leksvik, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.
63.66° North, 10.64° East. From 10pm to 12am on February  15th, 2010.

This image is made up of two exposures with added Photoshop mojo.
Head over to the flickr page.

With -20°C (-4°F) and cold winds outside, I chose to shoot this timelapse video from my living room window. Rather than risk venturing outside and freeze my fingers off

This video features shots of sea smoke on the Trondheimsfjord and a sunset towards the end.

It was shot on a Canon 7D with a 70-300mm lens. And I used the Canon TC-80N3 to time the intervals of the exposures. I used Quicktime 7 (you find it in your “Tools” folder if you’re running Snow Leopard) to export the image sequences as video files (Apple ProRes). Edited in Final Cut Pro. Color corrected in Apple Color.

Made on February 23rd, 2010 in Leksvik, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway – 63.66° North, 10.64° East.

Soundtrack: “That Town” by Sambassadeur

From a cold day in Trondheim.