Interior architecture

[Manfred M]

This is the first time I've ever tried an indoor pano. Shot with the 24mm PC-E lens with the front in the lowest position possible for this three shot pano. I thought this might be a hard shot to pull off and I was right; I finally nailed it on my third try.

The image was taken in one of the study areas in a new building at the local community college. Part of the area is made up of two suspended "pods".




And a closeup ultra-wide angle shot of a study pod interior.

[Rebel]

I think they both work very well, nice shots!

[bnnrcn]

They are very nice Manfred. The exposure looks very good.Did you take bracketed shots and merge the wanted parts in PS ?


PS. In the second shot, I can see something like brush strokes on the ceiling

[Kaye Leggett]

I like these shots and what a wonderful place.

[IzzieK]

HOw many frames did you take to get #1 very nice? Somehow when it comes to interior pano I cannot get mine straight. What kind of lens did you use? PP software ? Thanks...

[Mike Buckley]

Very nice, Manfred! Great handling of the mixed lighting sources. That probably would have been even more difficult during daytime hours.

The reflections in the ceiling of the second one are somewhat distracting. Consider cropping that one just above the counter top to tell a different story and eliminate those distractions. Especially consider cropping to at least eliminate the bright light at the top of the frame that pulls my eye outside the frame.

[John 2]

..............................The reflections in the ceiling of the second one are somewhat distracting. ..................

I agree but two well handled images Manfred and I love the architecture - very imaginative. There is minimal distortion. Is that down purely to the use of the lens or was there a need for some PP?

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Manfred, I like both, well captured!

[TonyW]

I can well believe that these were hard shots to get right, but they are just right. They are remarkably sharp front to back and distortion free. As others have commented, the architecture is also interesting.

[Manfred M]

They are very nice Manfred. The exposure looks very good.Did you take bracketed shots and merge the wanted parts in PS ?


PS. In the second shot, I can see something like brush strokes on the ceiling

No, the shots are not bracketed. The nice thing about large interiors is that the lighting can be quite even. The first shot is made up of three stitched images and the camera was in the vertical (portrait) orientation when I took them.

The distracting elements of the second shot are light reflections off the lens elements. I took a stab at cleaning them up, but the image actually looked worse. I was less than a meter away from the stools (shot with a 14mm focal length on a FF camera). I find that this actually helps break up the ceiling a bit.

[Manfred M]

I agree but two well handled images Manfred and I love the architecture - very imaginative. There is minimal distortion. Is that down purely to the use of the lens or was there a need for some PP?

With a 14mm rectilinear lens on a FF camera, there is definitely edge distortion.

[Manfred M]

HOw many frames did you take to get #1 very nice? Somehow when it comes to interior pano I cannot get mine straight. What kind of lens did you use? PP software ? Thanks...

Three shots, Izzie. The secret of getting the pano to work out when the subject is not "at infinity" is to figure out where the no-parallax point of the lens (at the specific focal length is) and then to use either a pano rig or a long focusing rail to ensure that the camera rotates around the no-parallax (i.e. entry pupil). I use the long focusing rail method, which is a lot less money and a lot more portable than a full pano rig. It is also critical to have the camera just about absolutely level during the shots.

I used the Nikkor f/3.5 24mm Nikkor PC-E rotated 90 degrees from normal and had the lens displaced as far down as it could go. I also tried to shoot with the f/2.8 14-24mm Nikkor, but given the rather strange shooting position (I was in a pod, just like the one in the image), with relatively limited options on where I could place my tripod, the results were not as good.

For PP I used Photoshop CC 2014 to stitch the three images together.

[Manfred M]

Very nice, Manfred! Great handling of the mixed lighting sources. That probably would have been even more difficult during daytime hours.

Thanks Mike. Not really too much of a mixed light situation; the lights seem to have been around the same colour temperature. One of the reasons I waited until night was to ensure it was dark out; and of course to shoot when the place wasn't totally overrun by students.

The reflections in the ceiling of the second one are somewhat distracting. Consider cropping that one just above the counter top to tell a different story and eliminate those distractions. Especially consider cropping to at least eliminate the bright light at the top of the frame that pulls my eye outside the frame.

I looked at that Mike; the main reason (other than being lazy) is that the lights brighten up the immediate area and in spite of the high tech coatings in the lens, I have plenty of ghosting in the image. I tried cloning it out and a different crop, but the end result was worse than what I have here.