Chicago Cultural Center

I cannot resist taking interior shots if I have the wide-angle lens in the bag. This is a handheld 6-image vertorma of the Chicago Cultural Center, one of the best places to shoot in Chicago. I took 2 sets of 3 bracketed shots at +2,0,-2 and used Photomtaix to create the flat file. Then used Photoshop to merge into a vertorama. One of the challenges shooting handheld bracketed shots is you have to watch the shutter speed for the +2 exposure. In this case my middle exposure being 1/40 sec, +2 exposure was 1/10. I was not very sure how it came out when I looked at the LCD screen. But when I opened on the monitor it did not look like a bad shot at all. I was a little amazed though. Anyways shooting at ISO 1600 meant I had to do some noise reduction using Topaz Denoise. Other than that regular Photoshop stuff including High-pass filter for selective sharpening.

Also, when it comes to shooting vertorama I do follow Klauss Herrmann's technique. Incase, anybody interested here is the link farbspiel-photo.com/learn/hdr-cookbook/interior-vertoramas. He is the best I have seen so far when it comes to interior vertoramas.

 

Camera : Nikon D7000

Lens : Sigma 10-20 F4-F5.6

Aperture : F4

Focal length : 10 mm

ISO : 1600

Shutter speed : 1/40 sec (handheld)

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