FRAMED: Panorama of Walt Disney Concert Hall - Shot on a Hasselblad by @playitforward

This has been one of the most astounding photos I've taken of a building. Albeit, it does shrink the size and make it a little fatter than it actually looks. That's a perk of using a 45mm lens on a medium format camera. It looks like a 35mm camera, but also sort of distorts the size a little bit.

The Result

Setup

First, there was a little wandering and waiting. This is because I wanted to take the shot before anyone was standing on the stairs. It's more difficult than it sounds. People were coming in and out constantly trying to get photos from their phones.

I placed my tripod there and adjusted the aperture, focus, and shutter speed until it was just right.

A little obvious to have a tripod and a very nice camera on it, I was worried that I would stick out like a sore thumb there. Or worse, have their security team come and shut down my shot.

I decided to take a lot exposure of about a second per section. Check it out as each shot is taken, the tripd is set so that I can manually pan over to the right to capture each subsequent shot. Each section is as follows:

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Conclusions

Architectural photography is new to me. So it was an interesting new challenge to help frame a picture of something so large. I probably could have even used a 24mm or 17mm lens instead of this for a better effect of more grandeur. This is a sweeping building of so much music, and so much beauty on the outside that I had to have this in the collection.

I took all of these images into photoshop (150 mb each) and made a stitched panorama with them. Photoshop output something like this:

Of course, it took a tremendous amount more work than it looks to alter the light in photoshop to make it feel more balanced. I left the warmness of the bulbs on the building for effect. More or less, this is what my eyes saw on the street, just a tad more wide-angle.

FRAMED: Panorama of Walt Disney Concert Hall - Shot on a Hasselblad by @playitforward