Thursday, September 18, 2025 | By: Jim Zuckerman
This is a vertical panorama of the Salzburg Cathedral in Salzburg, Austria. However, it is a partial pano that started in the alter and went to the ceiling of the cathedral. Instead of going all the way down to the other side of my shooting position, I stopped the coverage midway. That meant there was less distortion in the way the images were stitched together, and the final composite wasn't so narrow and long. This is a 5-frame pano, and I used a 24mm focal length. The settings were 1/60, f/4.0, and 3200 ISO. I used Photoshop to stitch the individual frames together. Notice how the windows are blown out with no detail. Instead of stained glass, the windows were covered by an unattractive wife mesh. The overexposed highlights obliterated the mesh and made the windows look ethereal, fitting for a cathedral. That's why I didn't use HDR. Usually I take great care not to blow out highlights. This is an interesting exception.
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