Looking Up

You know the photographic saying that goes something along the lines of ‘after you take your photo turn around and look behind you, because the best shot might be there'? Well, sometimes you also have to look up, particularly indoors.

My vision tends to be more telephoto and detail isolating, but this time what I had in mind called for an extreme wide angle lens. This image, looking up one of the columns of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning was shot at a focal length of 15mm. Given that the the camera was mere inches from the lowest point on the column, the photo is also a focus stack. In a focus stack such as this, multiple images, each focused at a slightly different point along the column, are merged so that the entire column appears in focus. Having the entire column in focus is something not physically possible with a single exposure, even with a wide angle lens.

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‘Looking Up’ © Howard Grill

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