The Rood Screen
This is the Rood Screen at Ripon Cathedral, a spectacular gothic Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire city of Ripon, England. The cathedral was built between the 13th and 16th centuries, but is the fourth building to have existed on this site. Founded as a monastery by Scottish monks in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672 when the first stone church was built.
The screen is one of the most treasured features of the cathedral. It features eight carved and painted kings in canopied niches flanking the central doorway into the choir (bottom left), with another 24 statues in niches above the doorway arch. Measuring eight feet thick, the screen dates from the 15th century, although the statues are Victorian and represent kings, bishops, and saints who played a part in the history of the cathedral. Inside the passage of the main archway is a door to the rood loft, and another door down into the Saxon crypt.
Above the screen, in the centre of the image, you can see some of the pipes of the cathedral's organ. The first reference to an organ in Ripon Cathedral occurs in the Fabric Rolls for 1399. With casework by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the present-day, four-manual organ was built by Harrison and Harrison and contains two ranks from a 1690 organ. It is a rebuild of the original instrument by T C Lewis of Brixton, which dates from 1878.
This photo is taken from a spherical panorama. The panorama was created by taking 9 shots with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 MP image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. The tripod is removed by taking two 'straight down' shots from slightly different positions, using a dedicated spherical panoramic head that can offset the camera position away from the central axis of the tripod. Each frame was taken with 5 exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners (so 45 shots in total). The spherical panorama was transformed to the 2D square you see here using stereographic projection, then adjusted and cropped for composition.
Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM @ 10mm
6s | 2s | 0.6s | 1/5s | 1/15s (+3.33/+1.7/0/-1.7/-3.33EV)
f/9
ISO 200
Stitching & reprojection: PTGui Pro
Exposure blending and tonemapping: Aurora HDR
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripon_Cathedral
The Rood Screen
This is the Rood Screen at Ripon Cathedral, a spectacular gothic Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire city of Ripon, England. The cathedral was built between the 13th and 16th centuries, but is the fourth building to have existed on this site. Founded as a monastery by Scottish monks in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672 when the first stone church was built.
The screen is one of the most treasured features of the cathedral. It features eight carved and painted kings in canopied niches flanking the central doorway into the choir (bottom left), with another 24 statues in niches above the doorway arch. Measuring eight feet thick, the screen dates from the 15th century, although the statues are Victorian and represent kings, bishops, and saints who played a part in the history of the cathedral. Inside the passage of the main archway is a door to the rood loft, and another door down into the Saxon crypt.
Above the screen, in the centre of the image, you can see some of the pipes of the cathedral's organ. The first reference to an organ in Ripon Cathedral occurs in the Fabric Rolls for 1399. With casework by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the present-day, four-manual organ was built by Harrison and Harrison and contains two ranks from a 1690 organ. It is a rebuild of the original instrument by T C Lewis of Brixton, which dates from 1878.
This photo is taken from a spherical panorama. The panorama was created by taking 9 shots with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 MP image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. The tripod is removed by taking two 'straight down' shots from slightly different positions, using a dedicated spherical panoramic head that can offset the camera position away from the central axis of the tripod. Each frame was taken with 5 exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners (so 45 shots in total). The spherical panorama was transformed to the 2D square you see here using stereographic projection, then adjusted and cropped for composition.
Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM @ 10mm
6s | 2s | 0.6s | 1/5s | 1/15s (+3.33/+1.7/0/-1.7/-3.33EV)
f/9
ISO 200
Stitching & reprojection: PTGui Pro
Exposure blending and tonemapping: Aurora HDR
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripon_Cathedral