Exploring a Large Cave

Planinska jama, Notranjsko-kraška, Slovenia

August 25, 2015, 13:11 UTC (15:11 local time)

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I've chosen this panorama because I really like the light and it reminds me of a very nice trip to Ljubljana. It shows Planinska jama (The Planina cave) which is one of the longest Slovenian water caves.

I was able to visit this cave at the annual PanoTools-Meeting 2015. Thanks again to BoÅ¡tjan Burger for organising and hosting the meeting. Be sure to check out BoÅ¡tjans contribution to the WWP event water, which shows the same cave.

Making Of

As the lens is a fisheye lens, four pictures easily cover 360Â°. To capture the large dynamic range of the scenery I took three exposures in each direction. I used a custom lens bracket on a tripod. The exposures were 2 f-stops apart. The exposures were blended in Lightroom and exported to be stitched with PTGui Pro. Zenith and nadir were retouched by hand in Photoshop.

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Europe / Slovenia

Lat: 45° 49' 11" N
Long: 14° 14' 45" E

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Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.

Equipment

Camera: Sony ILCE-6000

Lens: Samyang 7mm/3.5 UMC fisheye @ f7.1(lens hood shaved, MFT lens adapted for Sony E-mount)

Mounting: Custom-made lens bracket mounted on top of a tripod

Software: PTGui Pro, Smartblend, Photoshop CC, Pano2VR

Images: 4 pictures @ 90° (each image was rendered from 3 bracketed exposures before stitching)

Exposure: 0.4 seconds, 1.6 seconds and 6 seconds @ ISO 100

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