Copyright:
Arnar Kristjansson;
Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
原文:
Is this the real world? Or is it just fantasy? The truth started with a dream — a dream that the spectacular Seljarlandsfoss waterfall in southern Iceland could be photographed with a backdrop of an aurora-filled sky. Soon after a promising space weather report, the visionary astrophotographer and his partner sprang into action. After arriving, capturing an image of the background sky, complete with a cool green aurora, turned out to be the easy part. The hard part was capturing the waterfall itself, for one reason because mist kept fogging the lens! Easy come, easy go — it took about 100 times where someone had to go back to the camera — on a cold night and over slippery rocks — to see how the last exposure turned out, wipe the lens, and reset the camera for the next try. Later, the best images of land and sky were digitally combined. Visible in the sky, even well behind the aurora, are numerous stars of the northern sky. The resulting title — given by the astrophotographer — was influenced by a dream-like quality of the resulting image, possibly combined with the knowledge that some things really mattered in this effort to make a dream come true.
中文翻譯:
這是真實的世界嗎？還是只是一場幻想呢？這個故事始於一個夢想——一個願望，希望在冰島南部的Seljalandsfoss瀑布前，背景是滿天的極光。很快，在一份令人振奮的太空天氣報告後，這位富有遠見的星空攝影師與他的伴侶立刻行動了起來。
一到達那裡，拍攝天空的畫面，捕捉到美麗的綠色極光似乎簡單得多。然而，拍攝瀑布本身可就難了，因為霧氣不斷模糊鏡頭！可望而不可及，這次拍攝經歷了大約100次的嘗試，每次都有一個人必須在寒冷的夜晚和滑溜的岩石上返回到相機那裡，查看上一張曝光的效果，擦拭鏡頭，然後重置相機以準備下一次拍攝。最後，最佳的陸地與天空的圖像被數碼合成。天空中，即使在極光的後方，還能看到許多北半球的星星。而這張作品的標題——由這位攝影師所取——受到成像夢幻般特質的影響，可能還結合了某些事情對於實現這個夢想的重要性。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
