This ultra surreal photograph is a vertical panorama of the interior of the famous architectural wonder, Sagrada Familia Cathedral, in Barcelona, Spain. It is a 20-frame stitched image composite in which I held the camera horizontally as I started at the alter and continued shooting toward the zenith of the ceiling and then down the other side. At midpoint, I turned 180 degrees. 20 frames was overkill, but I wanted to make sure the amount of overlapping produced great detail. Photoshop put the images together perfectly. Each frame coming out of the Canon R5 is 128 megabytes, so when all the layers were assembled, the file was an amazing 2.96 gigabytes! When I flattened all the layers, the final size of the composite was 393 megs. I then made some color and contrast adjustments in ACR. My lens of choice was a 16mm focal length, and my settings for each frame were 1/320, f/2.8, and 2500 ISO. The distortion almost looks like a fisheye; that occurred because Photoshop had to piece together the skewed angles created by the wide angle lens such that there was a flow to the image.
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