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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 829323" data-attributes="member: 53455">The top of the chapel (2023)This photograph shows the ceiling and upper walls in the oldest, Carolingian part of the Saint Michael chapel photographed above. It was very difficult to shoot because of the lack of space, the need to work around the existing altar which cannot be moved, and the fact that the ceiling itself hang relatively low, leaving no possibility to “step back”. At the end of the day, I had to stitch a three-exposure panorama in PTGui to cover my whole subject with minimal distortion.The final result is quite faithful to what I have seen on-site, and hopefully does justice to those wonderful alfresco paintings from the 950–60s...Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm , ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Panoirama shot made up of three exposures stitched with PTGui software. Natural light.[ATTACH=full]415548[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 829323, member: 53455"] [B]The top of the chapel (2023)[/B] This photograph shows the ceiling and upper walls in the oldest, Carolingian part of the Saint Michael chapel photographed above. It was very difficult to shoot because of the lack of space, the need to work around the existing altar which cannot be moved, and the fact that the ceiling itself hang relatively low, leaving no possibility to “step back”. At the end of the day, I had to stitch a three-exposure panorama in PTGui to cover my whole subject with minimal distortion. The final result is quite faithful to what I have seen on-site, and hopefully does justice to those wonderful [I]alfresco[/I] paintings from the 950–60s... Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm , ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Panoirama shot made up of three exposures stitched with PTGui software. Natural light. [ATTACH type="full"]415548[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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