This two image, hand-merged, vertical panorama was shot in a ballroom in Versailles Palace outside Paris in 2007. Can the French aristocracy do ceilings or what?
I shot the component images handheld in available light (...under the nose of an uppity French guard who wouldn't allow a tripod) at an effective focal length of 27mm, at ISO 400, f/4.0, and exposed for 1/30 sec.
After photomerge failed to produce a workable image, I resorted to hand blending in CS4. Whew!
I'm stuck by the marked drop-off in quality, when these large, raw, blended images are converted to lower resolution JPG's for display on the internet.
-CGTTL
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