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Vortex effect in the mountains of Enguera, Spain, at night.

Vortex effect in the mountains of Enguera, Spain, at night.
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OLYMPUS E-M1

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 1600 Shutter 20/1 Focal Length 12/1

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Enguera, Comunidad Valenciana, ES

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Jul, 2021

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Behind The Lens

Location

The photo was taken in the almost abandoned village of Hoya Redonda, in the mountains of Enguera, Spain.

Time

This photo was taken at night, during an outing with a group of fellow photographers, while we were looking to photograph the milky way.

Lighting

Since it was nighttime and there was no lighting in the village, I decided to light the tractor and the surrounding grasses with a flashlight.

Equipment

Use an Olympus OMD E-M1 camera with an M.zuiko 12-40 f2/8 lens, at 12mm, attached to a manfrotto tripod, and use a flashlight to illuminate the scene.

Inspiration

We wanted to photograph the milky way, and we knew that in the village where we were going, being almost abandoned, there was agricultural machinery and abandoned houses around the place, so we were going to try to frame the milky way among the objects in the village.

Editing

Although initially the idea was to photograph the vial actea, and I have a version of the same photo with it, in this case I wanted to make a slightly extravagant edition creating a kind of vortex with the stars, for this I used photoshop, with the result that you can see

In my camera bag

I usually carry 2 camera bodies, the OM System OM-1 and the Olympus OMD E-M1X, with their complement of lenses, M.zuiko 7-14mm f2/8, M.zuiko 12-40mm f2/8, M.zuiko 40-150mm and the m.zuiko 150-400mm, plus a couple of multipliers and various filters.

Feedback

To capture a similar image, except for the post-processing for the stars, all you need is the camera, a lens, the brighter the better, and a good tripod to give stability to the camera. You have to raise the iso enough, within what the camera allows, and expose long enough to take the stars, without them moving too much. In my case I raised the iso to 1600 with the diaphragm at f 2/8 and 20 seconds of exposure.

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Vortex

Vortex effect in the mountains of Enguera, Spain, at night.

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