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The Mediaeval Kitchen: Views from inside the fireplace.

The Mediaeval Kitchen: Views from inside the fireplace.

Most people would think this is perhaps a church or chapel. In fact, it's the kitchen for one of the many castles in Scotland. Once I saw the soft light co...
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Most people would think this is perhaps a church or chapel. In fact, it's the kitchen for one of the many castles in Scotland. Once I saw the soft light coming through the window, I had to take a panorama to do this room justice.

From what I saw there, everyone sits in the doorway to take photos, so I went to the massive open fireplace-oven and shot from there. It's an odd place to shoot from, but it was a vantage that worked quite well.

I will warn you, that curved walls-ceilings do NOT help your stitching software to do a nice job. Interestingly, I could either get the walls-ceiling to work, or the floor. I've tried tweaking, but even manually setting corresponding points resulted in images that looked... wrong.
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