This is the spectacular Thistle Chapel in St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. For the purists among you, you'll be disappointed to know this remarkable work in architecture doesn't look like this at all for three reasons: 1) I used a 16mm focal length which distorts perspective, 2) it is a vertical pano composite consisting of 7 frames, overlapped by about 50%, stitched together, and 3) I didn't want a long vertical aspect ratio, typical of panorama images, so I used 'generative expand' in Photoshop and added architectural detail on the left and right sides of the frame to make the aspect ratio more akin to what comes out of our cameras, i.e. 3 x 2. The chapel was quite dark, so my settings were 1/30, f/2.8, and 12,800 ISO. After-the-fact I used Topaz DeNoise to mitigate the noise, and I also applied Filter > liquify to reduce some of the curvature at the bottom of the frame that resulted from stitching together images taken with a wide angle lens.
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