The Equitable Building

Built in the late 1800's it's finished in marble, stone, copper and sporting a tiled mosaic ceiling in the main hall of over 6 million tiles it is truly a hidden treasure. Fortunately, they granted me permission to have a go at capturing this exceptional masterpiece. All shots are 7 shot AEB at +/-1 EV.

3 shot pano

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Gorgeous!

I love the colors in #1 and #2, and the symmetry in #3.

Outstanding.

Nicely done, Jon!

Beautiful building with great detail Jon. It looks like you really nailed the dynamic range on the first image especially.

Very nice, Jon! The first one is my favorite.

Really good stuff, thanks for sharing!

Fantastic! Love them all!!

wow!

Thanks for the comments everyone. Here's a few more than I've got done since posting.

Killer images really nice processing!

ps- no flickr permission on that one shot?

Thanks for headsup Hasty, and sorry about that everyone. It should be setup now. If not, please let me know.

Jon
I love the work.
I am curious how much planning went into this shoot, and how much time you spent actually making the shoot?

Curious too Jon, vertical pano I assume? and what software do use for panos? Ive tried photomerge in cs5 a few times with terrible results. I'd really like to get some good software for panos. Thanks.

ps- friended ya on flickr even tho i'm not on there much.

Thanks pbelarge.

A friend told me about the building so a workmate and I took a long lunch break and checked it out. While there, I left message for the building managers that I would like to shoot it and to contact me at their convenience. They did so in a few days and with permission granted went back for another look and to set up times with security.

During these two visits, I put together a list of shots to take in my head, but they were really just the main frontal shots and a couple of the pano's. Most of the shots were just me trying new things, playing with angles, and seeing what worked. I planned to be there between 1 and 2 hours and was there just under 3. The lighting was pretty poor for a lot of the shots, so I kept having to adjust my ISO so that my longest exposure was at or less than 30 seconds so I could autobracket. I also set a time to be there after most businesses were closed, but people kept walking through the shots anyway.

The other thing I had a lot of trouble with (if you couldn't tell) was white balance. They had every kind of light imaginable and it seemed like every shot had many different ones in them. I stuck the camera on AWB and let it do its thing, hoping it could sort out some of it. Not sure if that was a good move or not, but I guess it didn't hurt to much.