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I had a very interesting time trying to stitch these images, not to mention compose them! It was one of these places where no photo seemed to capture the essence of the place, anyshot that concentrated on one aspect felt it lacked the impact of scope of the whole room and vice versa, the UW shots felt like they lost alot of the intricacy of the art work..

how do you go about trying to capture scene like this?

I have no idea....but they do look great...now if you have some detail shots to put next to them it would be perfect!

How many shots per stitch?

Hmm.
Very Italianate, therefore a Catholic Church. Large, as it has an Apse. You live in Newtown... Marrickville Catholic Church?

biggerry wrote:how do you go about trying to capture scene like this?

Have you considered one of those interactive walk-throughs some of the real estate agents are using these days?

check this out http://www.utah3d.net/pages/temple_square.html spherical panos... could be the go.

Have a look at some of Peter's, ie Stubbsy, shots he does with churches. He ends up using a fisheye and then using DxO software to de-fish the end photo, which seems to work quite well. Not sure if he still uses that technique but I remember that he was getting some very good results a while back.

cheers,

André

Argh! It's all about the context: I saw the thread name and was expecting to see some underwater stitches!

Love that second Gerry. Nice composition, symmetry and colours. Would be great printed LARGE.

I think microsnot had some application that can do 3d panoramas with infinite resolution. You may want to investigate.

Gerry - #1 is just superb. How well lit was the church? My experience is light is always the challenge inside churches yet this looks nice and bright so you can see the detail.

radar wrote:Have a look at some of Peter's, ie Stubbsy, shots he does with churches. He ends up using a fisheye and then using DxO software to de-fish the end photo, which seems to work quite well. Not sure if he still uses that technique but I remember that he was getting some very good results a while back.

Still use this André and now I've seen Gerry's pics I want to go visit. The beauty of the fisheye for these is the 10.5 gets nice and wide and with the defish you remove much of the spherical distortion

now if you have some detail shots to put next to them it would be perfect!

yeah wish I had taken some more detail shots

interactive walk-throughs some of the real estate agents are using these days?

check this out http://www.utah3d.net/pages/temple_square.html spherical panos... could be the go.

that is mad stuff, I like how they even get an image looking straight down, methinks one would need some patience and a tripod for this..nice idea, i will try and keep this in mind for next time!

Have a look at some of Peter's, ie Stubbsy, shots he does with churches. He ends up using a fisheye and then using DxO software to de-fish

download the trial to have a play, however since they are pano images the exif is stripped and DxO struggles, I will look further into this though, I do like the idea of being able to 'de-fish' that first one! I also have another which really feels like your in a fishbowl.

Argh! It's all about the context: I saw the thread name and was expecting to see some underwater stitches

ahaha! sucker

I think microsnot had some application that can do 3d panoramas with infinite resolution. You may want to investigate

ta suren,interesting, will i need to buy a new computer? and new windows?

Gerry - #1 is just superb. How well lit was the church? My experience is light is always the challenge inside churches yet this looks nice and bright so you can see the detail.

Lighting was great, just not enough of it! Most of the shots are at handheld f3.3 1/15s iso 500 which is about the most I would push the poor old D80 nowadays.
I keep going back to that cocktoo island shot of the big lathe chuck you did years ago, you did some awesome distortion control on that one!

so...the church(s) are in Australia but not in Sydney

Very well done, cant see any sign of the stiching. The interior is so interesting. Congrats

cant see any sign of the stiching. The interior is so interesting.

It took several goes to get them to stitch, at 11mm things seem to get very tricky, looking at the first image on the curtian thingys about halfway up you can detect some anomalies, will have to revisit these I reckon..

Ther interior of these little churches is incredible, the detail and the composition of the scenes is something I find amazing..

FYI, these are located at New Norcia in Western Australia at the Benedictine monastery - if you are ever over that way make an effort to have a look, it is well worthwhile...

The Benedictine monastery is located on the site of the original 1847 mission building in New Norcia . The monastery is still home to a community of monks who live a simple communal life of prayer and work within the monastery. Surrounding this beautiful town is a 19,760-acre working farm, first established in 1847 by the Spanish Benedictine missionaries. New Norcia is made up of 69 buildings spread over approximately ten acres with 27 of its buildings being listed by the National Trust due to their heritage value.