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Mystical mountain church
This is (the upper floor) of one of two churches of a small semi-alpine village, counting just over 1K inhabitants.
Initially erected in 1414, but later in part rebuild a number of times due to earthquakes, fires and storms and located in a remote, very rural area it still has it all, iconography in gold, oil paintings causally sitting on the floor, rugs, books laying around, even a small organ.
This was mid summer and afternoon, a couple of years ago, very hot outside and I was surprised that the church was even open. I'm not religious and certainly not in favour of ideology generally, but I grew into liking churches, if nothing else but for their historic significance.
Entering was a weirdly intense experience somehow, it was cool inside and felt kind of private; it was obvious that there is literally nothing going on, no mass no tourists no nothing, and the traditional tiled stained glass windows bathed the inside in a warm soft light creating beautiful shadows along the arched sides and ceiling.
I really like how these turned out in the equirectangular projection, and that's why I didn't add the respective tag for Flickr to make it interactive. (Well, Flickr does it anyway :|, ..c'est la vie.)
It was a truly special atmosphere and the silence was magnificent, so I did take my time to enjoy just that (after the panorama work).
Technically this is complete spherical panorama, consisting of 12 individual photos and a equirectangular projection yielded 10580 x 5290px, ~56MP. And I again did it with f/3.5, not sure why, except for one reason, which isn't really a good or necessariy one.
For getting a closer look without jumping into this interactive viewing modality, hit 'L' first and then '+' resp. left mouse button..
Nikon D90 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Samyang 8mm f/3.5 UMC FE CSII
ISO320, 8mm, f/3.5, 1/13sec (-0.3EV)
(thus 12mm full frame equivalent)
tripod with panorama head, remote
Mystical mountain church
This is (the upper floor) of one of two churches of a small semi-alpine village, counting just over 1K inhabitants.
Initially erected in 1414, but later in part rebuild a number of times due to earthquakes, fires and storms and located in a remote, very rural area it still has it all, iconography in gold, oil paintings causally sitting on the floor, rugs, books laying around, even a small organ.
This was mid summer and afternoon, a couple of years ago, very hot outside and I was surprised that the church was even open. I'm not religious and certainly not in favour of ideology generally, but I grew into liking churches, if nothing else but for their historic significance.
Entering was a weirdly intense experience somehow, it was cool inside and felt kind of private; it was obvious that there is literally nothing going on, no mass no tourists no nothing, and the traditional tiled stained glass windows bathed the inside in a warm soft light creating beautiful shadows along the arched sides and ceiling.
I really like how these turned out in the equirectangular projection, and that's why I didn't add the respective tag for Flickr to make it interactive. (Well, Flickr does it anyway :|, ..c'est la vie.)
It was a truly special atmosphere and the silence was magnificent, so I did take my time to enjoy just that (after the panorama work).
Technically this is complete spherical panorama, consisting of 12 individual photos and a equirectangular projection yielded 10580 x 5290px, ~56MP. And I again did it with f/3.5, not sure why, except for one reason, which isn't really a good or necessariy one.
For getting a closer look without jumping into this interactive viewing modality, hit 'L' first and then '+' resp. left mouse button..
Nikon D90 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Samyang 8mm f/3.5 UMC FE CSII
ISO320, 8mm, f/3.5, 1/13sec (-0.3EV)
(thus 12mm full frame equivalent)
tripod with panorama head, remote