here stands an empty house…

…it used to be full of life.

I had two different things on my mind when I shot and processed this photograph, and I listened to Loreena Mckennit’s Dante’s Prayer, as well as Alison Moyet’s This House, while post processing.Â This particular photograph is actually a vertical panorama, or Vertorama as it is often called.Â It is the product of 18 brackets (9 for the top half and 9 for the bottom half).Â While stitching panoramas together sometimes in a need for extensive cropping, there was none of that in this particular piece because I used a tilt/shift lens to get my brackets, shooting one set of 9 brackets (the top half) with the lens shifted up, and the last 9 brackets (for the bottom half) with the lens shifted down.Â This is one of the biggest reasons I love tilt/shift lenses.

This is just awesome! Love the textures on the walls and floor and the exposed brick…..wow! Especially that one left-over piece of ceiling that keeps you looking for a few minutes more. The shot is even more impressive after watching your workflow on Vimeo – I can now see more clearly how your pieces come together. Thanks for sharing that.
E

Hey there, Eyal. Thanks so much for the great comments. Glad the video put the pieces into place a bit more. I find there are a lot of photogs out there who hoard their skills, which I think is insane, but more and more folks are opening up more, I think.
Best;
Jacques

Outstanding. You are a true urbex master! Very inspired!!!