Van Goghian Night.
So, in the past week I've been busy with a new panorama. This panorama was at the back of my head for like 2 years and decided to do it just now, after midnight.
Here you see two versions (I've shot the panorama twice on location). The first version was shot at F/8 and the second at F/2.8 (lowest f-number for this 15mm fisheye lens). I'm glad that I've shot it at F/2.8 - something I don't usually do because my instincts (typically) tells me to have more depth of field when making the panorama to keep everything within reasonable sharpness. However, the situation here was challenging and metering the light was hard on location (I've absolutely done it wrong). The problem with the F/8 (first one) version is that the lights had a strong flare and couldn't be controlled even when working with HDR. In addition to that, tone-mapping was somewhat tricky as well and a great deal had to be done in Photoshop later on to enhance the colors and details as I envisioned them. Despite that, I do like the moving clouds which reminded me of Van Gogh. On the other hand, the F/2.8 version is somewhat calmer and had less problems (though some other issues were there).
For the next few days, I'll be trying to post duals of this panorama for each projection style, if I can (hopefully).
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