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One of York Minster's architectural gems, the Chapter House contains some of the Minster's finest carvings and in 1297 was used as the location for the Parliament of King Edward I. The octagonal space dates from the 1280s and its magnificent vaulted ceiling is supported by timbers in the roof instead of a central column, which is the earliest example of its kind to use this revolutionary engineering technique.
The superb display of stained glass in the seven windows is believed to date from approximately 1290. Some damage was sustained in the seventeenth century from the Civil War and repairs and restorations occurred several times throughout the following centuries.
I created this image from a spherical panorama shot with a fisheye lens. However, in this version I've removed the fisheye distortion in post-production which results in an image much like those produced by regular rectilinear lenses. If that all sounds like a lot of messing about, you'd be right! But the advantage of doing this is that it allows the final image to cover a much wider angle of view than any rectilinear lens is capable of in one frame. In addition, the image is much higher resolution - even though the camera sensor I used is 32MP, the full size version of this image is 60MP. The level of detail is amazing and it can be printed at enormous sizes and still be viewed at close quarters with the same high definition as regular 6x4 inch prints.
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One of York Minster's architectural gems, the Chapter House contains some of the Minster's finest carvings and in 1297 was used as the location for the Parliament of King Edward I. The octagonal space dates from the 1280s and its magnificent vaulted ceiling is supported by timbers in the roof instead of a central column, which is the earliest example of its kind to use this revolutionary engineering technique.
The superb display of stained glass in the seven windows is believed to date from approximately 1290. Some damage was sustained in the seventeenth century from the Civil War and repairs and restorations occurred several times throughout the following centuries.
I created this image from a spherical panorama shot with a fisheye lens. However, in this version I've removed the fisheye distortion in post-production which results in an image much like those produced by regular rectilinear lenses. If that all sounds like a lot of messing about, you'd be right! But the advantage of doing this is that it allows the final image to cover a much wider angle of view than any rectilinear lens is capable of in one frame. In addition, the image is much higher resolution - even though the camera sensor I used is 32MP, the full size version of this image is 60MP. The level of detail is amazing and it can be printed at enormous sizes and still be viewed at close quarters with the same high definition as regular 6x4 inch prints.