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Many travelers come to Iceland with a view to ticking the Northern Lights off their bucket list. If you’re planning to be one of them, we have some tips about where you should travel to while you’re on the Reykjanes peninsula if you’re keen to capture a shot of the aurora borealis with your camera. Here’s how to find the best places to take photos of the Northern Lights after landing at Keflavik Airport.

Tourists hoping to see the Northern Lights in Iceland will quickly appreciate that their colours are much more vivid when captured by a camera than with the naked eye. But not everyone wants to travel with a heavy bag of camera equipment. In this article, we’ll explain how to capture a great image of the Northern Lights using a smartphone and offer some other tips about how to improve the quality of your aurora photos.

What’s better than seeing the aurora borealis in Iceland? Having a really great photo to remind you of that special moment, that’s what. So let’s take a look at how to make that happen with our ultimate guide to taking photos of the Northern Lights.

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