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Laurenzo Mefsut's picture

St. Peters, London

This is a 193 Megapixel exposure bracketed panorama of the west front of St. Peter's, London (Westminster Abbey), designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

I wanted to make the most detailed and accurate architectural photographs possible with perspective control to print in large format, so used a medium format digital sensor with a 1980s Mamiya 6x7 lens with a large image circle and a double shift adapter to take 3 vertically oriented panels of 9 exposures each, using ambient light.

In Adobe Camera Raw I used a LUT profile for black and white to preserve underlying colour information according to a technique from Blake Rudis at f/64 Academy; then blended the exposures in Photoshop using HDR Pro; then stitched the panorama with Photomerge; straightened using Adaptive Wide Angle (as there was a fountain blocking me from taking the photo along the central axis of the façade); finally printed with Epson ET-8550 on matte roll paper at 13" x 36" (which is not clear in this submission).

Black and white eliminates the ugly orange streetlights in the colour version.

Equipment:
Fujifilm GFX100S
Mamiya RZ 75mm Shift lens
Hartblei Shift Adapter
Peak Design Aluminium Travel Tripod

Settings:
3 panorama panels x 9 exposures = 27 total exposures
1/160 to 1.5 second brackets; ISO 400; f/4.5

Fujifilm GFX100S + Mamiya 75mm Shift lens
75mm (RZ67 MF) · f/4.5 · 1/160 - 3 sec. bkt · ISO 400
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