Piazza Duomo

[mpykalo]

Hi everyone! I shot this with my Nikon D40 and the kit lens, on a tripod of course. Its a stitch comprising 36 exposures to make a complete sphere. This image is a crop giving a ultra-wide angle.

Any comments please...

[Marko]

I really like the composition here and this is a very very cool shot! I'd LOVE it if you could describe the stitching technique a bit more and if you could provide the approximate exif data.

There are some small things you could do to improve but this is very good already. Here's what I'd do;
- selective sharpening getting sharper toward the center of the photo
- dodge the curved staircase in the foreground
- burn in the highlight at mid left by about 20%
- maybe play with the colour balance (that's really more personal)

Hope that helps,
Marko

[mpykalo]

Thank you, I had a lot of fun taking this shot... and my wife was so enamored with this space that I really had a lot of time to set up and shoot it.
I own an offset tripod head that allows the entry point of the lens to be perfectly aligned with the rotation axis of the tripod... long winded I know, but this allows for perfect alignment of individual images for stitching using photoshop, or specialist panorama software. In order to achieve this I shot 36 individual exposures that provided full spherical coverage while providing sufficient overlap to assure correct stitching... using the kit lens set at 18mm
After stitching, the image ends up a very high resolution file... I'm sure its something like 50-80 megapixel though I opted for a smaller output file in order to make it manageable.

Thank you for the comments... please have a look at the attached image as I tried to address your comments. Oh and by the way, I'm not really sure why my uploaded files look so blurry??? The source file is EXTREMELY sharp as you can imagine, its 45 megapixel after all...

I really like the composition here and this is a very very cool shot! I'd LOVE it if you could describe the stitching technique a bit more and if you could provide the approximate exif data.

There are some small things you could do to improve but this is very good already. Here's what I'd do;
- selective sharpening getting sharper toward the center of the photo
- dodge the curved staircase in the foreground
- burn in the highlight at mid left by about 20%
- maybe play with the colour balance (that's really more personal)

Hope that helps,
Marko

[Marko]

Oh this rework is MUCH better and thanks for the info on how it was done. Usually I ask these questions so others may benefit

The only remaining medium things that bother me about the image are the lights at the left. The one you burned could still use another 20% burn IMO (sorry I should have said 40% the first time ) and the light to the left of that light almost at the mid-left edge should be cloned out completely or burned in by 50% or more.

Rockin' image!

Hope that helps - Thanks again!
Marko