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Florence cathedral full view

Florence cathedral full view
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Panorama view of the Florence cathedral

Photographer: Alfred Molon
Folder: Alfred Molon
Uploaded: 26-Aug-2005 21:54 CEST
Current Rating: 7.67/3
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Camera: Olympus C8080
Exposure time: 1.3s
Aperture: F2.4
Focal length: 28mm
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Focusing method: iESP P-AF
ISO: 50
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Flash: no
Image format: RAW
Processing applied: After RAW conversion, panorama stitch of the four images (2x2) with PTGUI
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Image resized to: 680x540

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Alfred, I spent a lot of time in Florence for my job. Looking at your picture I'm a little puzzled about the color. Is there so much green? It's a question. About the light unfortunately at the moment of the shot it was not the best. I see a strip from the central "rosone" to the base of the bell tower. This is my opinion, of course.

Piero Magnani at 22:06 CEST on 26-Aug-2005 [Reply]

Beautiful Building

Stitch quality can be improved, looking at your Taj Mahal picture that is done much better.

Fonzy - at 22:26 CEST on 26-Aug-2005 [Reply]

ooops , missed the rating

For the building an 8
for the stitching an 7
Makes 15/2= 7.5
No 7.5 on the rating scale , OK an 8.

Fonzy - at 22:32 CEST on 26-Aug-2005 [Reply]

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Piero Magnani wrote:
> Alfred, I spent a lot of time in Florence for my job. Looking at your picture I'm a little
> puzzled about the color. Is there so much green? It's a question.

If you look here: http://myolympus.org/document.php?id=3491
you will see that there is a lot of green marble in the facade


> I see a strip from the central "rosone" to the base of the bell tower. This is my opinion, of course.

Not sure what you mean here. Which strip are you referring to ?

Alfred Molon at 22:36 CEST on 26-Aug-2005 [Reply]

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Alfred Molon wrote:
> Piero Magnani wrote:
> > Alfred, I spent a lot of time in Florence for my job. Looking at your picture I'm a little
> > puzzled about the color. Is there so much green? It's a question.
>
> If you look here: http://myolympus.org/document.php?id=3491
> you will see that there is a lot of green marble in the facade
>
>
> > I see a strip from the central "rosone" to the base of the bell tower. This is my opinion,
> of course.
>
> Not sure what you mean here. Which strip are you referring to ?
>
Alfred, the first question is better expressed saying "because I'm missing from Florence since 3 or 4 years and they could have made some maintenance, is the green in the marble real?".
About the strip, the light on the central rose windows (rosone) is higher than thje one in the lower part. In addition the light in the base of bell tower is higher than the one in the higher part of it. Sorry for my English.

Piero Magnani at 22:51 CEST on 26-Aug-2005 [Reply]

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You have captured this well Alfred, it is a tall building and not easy to get it all in!
The verticals are not upright are they, or is it my eyes?
The tower seems to be bending in the middle:-)

Dave Hall at 20:17 CEST on 27-Aug-2005 [Reply]

Tough panorama

Dave Hall wrote:
> You have captured this well Alfred, it is a tall building and not easy to get it all in!
> The verticals are not upright are they, or is it my eyes?
> The tower seems to be bending in the middle:-)

Dave,

the whole panorama is actually a bit messy as has been pointed out. Despite using the same exposure and RAW conversion settings for all four images, there were huge brightness differences in the sky of the individual images:



Then the perspective was a bit crazy, as I had to be very close to the cathedral. See the intermediate result of PTGUI:



In post-processing I had to make the top part of the church brighter, so that the associated sky would be brighter too, to make the transitions less harsh.

Then I had to apply a blurring technique to smoothen the brightness transition in the sky. In any case I have other night panorama sequences of that church. I hope that the stitches will come out better this time.

Admin MyOlympus at 22:22 CEST on 27-Aug-2005 [Reply]

Including pictures in a comment

Alfred , "including pictures in a comment" is a great improvement to the website.

Thanks very much...

Fonzy - at 21:45 CEST on 28-Aug-2005 [Reply]