il chiostro di Voltorre

i've been making panoramic compositions lately on various subjects, and i have a particular satisfaction when the subject is architecture, since the warping mechanism is here more evident and -but it depends on each one's tastes- looking good.

i thought that a way to emphasise this was to find a subject with a repeated pattern that, dimensionally identical in reality, would become different from itself in the bubble deformation of a composed picture. i then thought the columns of a cloister would have been the pefect subject of such an attempt: i imagined and sketched which shots from which point of view i would have taken, and sketched the outcome as i guessed it would have been. last friday i went to a church not far from home where a cloister is and took some pictures, then i came back the day after with the tripod.

in the image below are my sketches and the first handheld version of the composition, while on top of the page is the daylight shot, the definitive one. some might say that the nightshot is somehow better, and probably it's true: artificial lights add something to the scene that sunlight is too hard to show. in any case, the picture presented here is the best i could achieve with that idea in mind, and this is certainly the most interesting aspect of these pictures: not the result, but the idea and its development.