=> Chapel, St. Patrick’s Col­lege Maynooth in NUI Maynooth.

Quite fit­ting to my three-​part inter­view with the Ger­man Pod­cast “Happy Shoot­ing, here’s my second-​highest res­ol­u­tion pan­or­ama sofar — the inside of the beau­ti­ful Col­lege Chapel of the St. Patrick’s Col­lege in Maynooth.

This was shot with a reg­u­lar lens, set to 24mm. This meant tak­ing 29 images, three rows of 9 plus one up, one down.

It took a bit longer to shoot than expec­ted… The place is typ­ic­ally empty — you can just walk in, if you know where to go and when the doors are not locked, but since it isn’t heav­ily advert­ised and Maynooth doesn’t really have hun­dreds of thou­sands of tour­ists run­ning around, you hardly ever find someone else in the chapel. But that one day when I wanted to shoot this pan­or­ama, people out of nowhere con­stantly walked in and around. And asked ques­tions. And tryed to not be in the pic­ture, while, well, still being in the pic­ture… But any­way, it all went well in the end and after a couple of hours of stitch­ing, it was done!

Yay :-)

PS: Appar­ently, this place has the largest num­ber of choir stands around. Everything needs a super­lat­ive, doesn’t it?

PPS: Merry belated Christmas!

Lens: Minolta 17-35

Pictures: 29 (at 24mm)

I think I men­tioned this in the past, but (provided you shoot RAW) you can save a lot of images. Take this one for instance, which was badly under­ex­posed (I wanted to take this pic­ture quickly, but the cam­era was still in manual mode and the expos­ure was set for an out­side scene).

Any­way, usu­ally I delete pic­tures like that right away in cam­era, but when the little one’s in it, I try not to be too delete-​happy — you never know.

And indeed, bring­ing the expos­ure up three stops (!) and thanks to the amaz­ing dynamic range of mod­ern digital cam­eras, there she is. Of course, push­ing the expos­ure by this much brings in a ton of noise, but remem­ber the old trick of turn­ing the image black and white in such cases, and it usu­ally won’t be that bad. To the con­trary, it gives this lovely “ana­logue” charme to the pic­ture.

I will post a few more pic­tures /​notes about back­light­ing, but like in this shot I’m a big fan of a strong light source (read: sun) peak­ing from behind the main sub­ject, pro­du­cing some light spill /​flare and, more import­antly, some a nice, defin­ing rim light.

Focal length:  50 mm Aperture: ƒ/2.0 Exposure: 1/2000 s

ISO: 1250 Lens: Minolta 50/1.4 Location:  Maynooth, Ireland