INSIDE THE GOULBURN, AUSTRALIA ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL
by Michelle Bienias
 When: September 11, 2003
Where: Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Australia’s first inland city has a number of heritage buildings and churches. Other attractions are white water rafting, skydiving, bushwalking (!), horse riding safaris and caves. It’s also home to the Australian Blues Music Festival held each year in mid-February.
What: An interior view of the Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Saviour, designed by the architect Edmund Thomas Blacket in his later years, who was also responsible for most of the older buildings at the University of Sydney. It took ten years to build, from 1874 to 1884 because of the detailed stone carving. It is the size of a large English parish church. The tower was added in 1988 for the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia. (For more details on the church, see this site .)
How: Photographer Peter Murphy, of Peter Murphy’s Panoramic VR Weblog, says:
“Church interiors, particularly Gothic ones, are a favorite subject for pano photographers. This country church I shot was an ideal subject in many ways -- very light-colored interior walls, lots of light streaming in, and staff who didn’t mind me shooting with a large pole.
Here the camera is about 9 feet off the ground. In this situation this has pros and cons -- the elevation makes the nadir view more interesting and the layout of the church becomes clearer (and the lighting on the seats looks better) but the overall scale of the space in the pano is somewhat confusing. To my eye the church looks smaller in the pano than it is in reality.
If there were people closer to the camera - like in the nearer pews - that would maybe have fixed this scale problem (but changed the mood).
Or I might try setting the initial view tilted down a little to hint that the viewpoint is elevated.
This is D1/8mm, as usual for me, 4 views with 3 auto bracketed shots at each view -1, 0, +1 stop. I think this pano gives a good idea of the maximum potential sharpness of this combo -- at 5 by 7 inches it looks sharp, at any larger, less so -- i.e. not really crisp full screen. This is 3200 by 1600 pixels, 600K at slightly more than LOW jpg compression.”
Nearby:
In the same town there is a giant Merino sheep ...which I also shot from a pole -- here the 3 storey high sheep is the main factor making everything else look small but I think the high camera adds some to the effect too.
Email Peter Murphy: pmurphy4@bigpond.net.au
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