Pier 7

© Marc Nader 2011

< I had been recently commissioned by BlankPage Architects to document their latest creation, Pier 7, in Beirut. I needed to come up with one single image encompassing the whole arena. For that, I needed an extensive coverage angle of ... 220°. There was no way I could use a fish-eye lens due to its insufficient coverage angle of 180° and its typical - and quite disturbing - curvature of all straight lines, whether verticals or horizontals. I was left with one choice: stitching together, in Photoshop, a series of 5 perfectly levelled frames, panned from exactly the same camera position, with a constant long exposure. The major problem was to keep that long exposure constant, at a time when the brightness of the scene was decreasing very quickly, since it was right after sunset. It worked, and everybody was extremely happy with the result.

Lens used was a Nikkor 14~24mm f/2.8 set at f/11, not for increased depth of field which is not really an issue with that lens, but for the longest possible exposure time.

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