All Saints, Northampton

[dubaiphil]

A B&W conversion of a panorama of All Saints Church in Northampton. I had to stick to a single exposure pano rather than a bracketed pano as there was too much traffic in the area and I couldn't get enough time to run a -4, -2, - and +2 bracket for the ground level shots in the pano.

[Nicks Pics]

Looks professional to me! How do the bright lights make star shapes like that?

[Mark von Kanel]

Great work Phil, love the drama that the contrast gives, wouldnt change a thing.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured. I would try to bring more details to the pillars, they are almost lost within the lights and similar tones walls.

[Mark von Kanel]

Looks professional to me! How do the bright lights make star shapes like that?

can be done with a filter but a small aperture will give you that eefect

[Mark von Kanel]

Im curious about the technique Phil, why have you done a panno? ist it to do with perspective and not compressing the foreground / distance with a wide angle lens?

what focal length did you use and how many shots? did you stitch vertically and horizontally?

[bnnrcn]

Great image Phil I too wonder how you shot this.

[dubaiphil]

Thanks guys - I very very rarely have a need for a wide angle - certainly not enough to keep a 14-24mm for those rare occasions (so I ended up selling a brilliant lens after 1 1/2 years for more than I paid for it).

So in this instance I used a 35mm prime lens on a tripod and just swept from bottom right to top left, with 3 shots on the bottom row, 4 on the middle and 4 on the top rows.

Plenty of overlap enables any stitching software to do its stuff, but in this case I used PTGui

[bnnrcn]

It seems like you have done a very good job Phil , congratulations

[Mark von Kanel]

So next question is, if you still had the lens would have you used it in this instance? and why /not? im going to go home and try some of this and will a 50mm pime and my 24/70 set at 24 and see what happens so all the info i can arm myself with will help.

thanks

[dubaiphil]

In this instance I probably would have used the 14-24 - it would have been much easier and quicker to bracket for an exposure fusion rather and in 4 shots I would have been done.

Compared to 11 different images to reproduce the same scene, with resetting the tripod and viewfinder cover each time after recomposing. Or 44 different images if I was to go for the same exposure fusion HDR of the scene.

Even with the 14-24, which is excellent across the frame, I'd be losing out considerably on resolution. Apologies if you're on board still, shipmate, but here's a 1/2 sized HDR night pano with lots of peeping capability if you're looking at the full image:

[dubaiphil]

And a 1/2 sized colour version of the church:

[Mark von Kanel]

Thanks Phil, thats great info, dont have a 14- 24 yet, last on the list, maybe for christmas or if the boss gives us a bonus.....they took bloody ages to download! but were worth it! prefere the B&W, how did you convert? pre stitching or post stitching?

[Wavelength]

Classic!!!

[NorthernFocus]

Nicely done, Phil. Must be viewed in the light box to be appreciated. A high rez version must be awesome indeed.