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This photo was taken in the nave at Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, England. It was created by taking 9 shots with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188MP spherical panorama 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 (sometimes called the tunnel effect). Here, the point directly above the camera position, the zenith, is placed at the centre of the image. The point directly below the camera position, the nadir, appears stretched around the outer edge of the image (I've cropped away the most stretched parts to improve the composition so the nadir isn't actually visible).

Dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary, this magnificent gothic cathedral was built between 1195 and 1340. It's the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. Its internal length is 113 m (371 ft), and the breadth of the nave, pictured here, is 21 m (69 ft). The central spire is 77 m (253 ft) high and the western spires are about 58 m (190 ft).

The sandstone used in its construction came from a quarry on the south side of Lichfield. The walls of the nave lean outwards slightly, due to the weight of stone used in the ceiling vaulting; some 200–300 tons of which was removed during renovation work to prevent the walls leaning further.

Lichfield suffered severe damage during the English Civil War of 1642–1651, in which all of the stained glass was destroyed. In spite of this, the windows of the Lady Chapel contain some of the finest medieval Flemish painted glass in existence. Dating from the 1530s, it came from the Abbey of Herkenrode in Belgium, in 1801, having been purchased by Brooke Boothby when that abbey was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars.

In February 2003, an eighth-century sculpted panel of the Archangel Gabriel was discovered under the nave of the cathedral. The 600mm tall panel is carved from limestone, and originally was part of a stone chest, which is thought to have contained the relics of St Chad. The panel was broken into three parts but was still otherwise intact and had traces of red pigment from the period. The pigments on the Lichfield Angel correspond closely to those of the Lichfield Gospels which have been dated to around 730AD. The Angel was first unveiled to the public in 2006, when visitor numbers to the cathedral trebled. After being taken to Birmingham for eighteen months for examination, it is now exhibited in the cathedral.

Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM @ 10mm
5s | 1.3s | 0.3s | 1/13s | 1/50s (+4/+2/0/-2/-4EV)
f/9
ISO 200
Stitching & reprojection: PTGui Pro
Exposure blending and tonemapping: Aurora HDR

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichfield_Cathedral

Taken on: August 7, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 90D, f/9.0, 1.3 sec, 10mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 90D
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	1.3
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	200
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Macintosh)
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