I'm in Tuscany now helping my wife work out a few details of her photo tour here in October. We spent one day in Florence -- a truly photogenic city -- and visited what I consider to be the most beautiful room in Europe -- the Medici Chapel. In the most dazzling display of artistry ever conceived in marble (in my opinion, of course), the tombs of the wealthy Medici family are on display for, I hope, forever. This image is a vertical pano of one section of the cavernous room. It is a 6-frame stitched composite in which I held the camera horizontally to take each shot. The images were composed such that there was approximately a 50% overlap. In post-processing, I used the generative fill command in Photoshop to eliminate some unwanted people as well as a distracting reflection on the floor. I also used Filter > liquify to mitigate some of the distortion inherent in the pano process. Some distortion remains, of course, because it was impossible to eliminate all of it. My exposure for each exposure was 1/60, f/4.5, and 3200 ISO, and I used a 24mm wide angle.
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Mar 11, 2025, 12:00:49 PM
James R Steadman - Very interesting. I appreciate the explanation. I can think of several venues where vertical panos could be stunning. Thanks!