St. Paul's Cathedral, London

St. Paul's Cathedral, London

By far one of my favorite panoramas from my trip to Europe back in February both visually and technically. Photographing St. Paul's was the cherry on top to a day of bicycling around London and visiting The Natural History museum. I had a much different idea of what I was photographing when I came to this location. However I got lost exploring the museum til they closed and practically got escorted out, needles to say I missed golden hour and thus the reflections on the windows in a corridor of the One New Change Building that directly faced the cathedral. It didn't take too much exploration to make my way to the roof top where I found this spectacular view of St. Paul's against London. After some consideration I decided to take each image of the panorama in a portrait orientation to maximize the vertical field of view to allow for an overall wider horizontal field of view with out creating a narrow composure. Each of the 7 images used to stitch this together were shot in three exposures only adjusting the shutter speed between 3.2 , 10, and 25 seconds. I kept the aperture at F11 for a large depth of field and sharp focus while the ISO was set at 50 to eliminate any noise and grain from the composure. I really enjoyed taking this picture and the feeling of exploration in a new place it left me with wrapping up a great day of travel.

Canon 5D Mk. III w/ Canon 24-70 F2.8 L

54 Megapixel, 21 image, HDR Panorama of St. Paul's Cathedral from the roof of the One New Change building in London