Deep inside the action of a Steinway Grand Piano. All of the parts in this tiny space (less than 2cm in diameter) are hand carved, a fraction of more than 11'000 parts making up a typical Steinway Grand, and far more considering this is a Spirio R model which incorporates a whole host of electronics for recording and playback. I photographed this using a Lumix S1R camera and the fairly whacky Laowa 24mm probe lens. That lens wasn't quite small enough to fit into this space, so I melted off some of the outer casing with a heat gun to slim it down! To keep everything sharp I took 117 individual photos, each focused slightly further away from the last. These were then stacked together using Helicon Focus, some remarkable software which finds the in-focus areas of each shot and combines them all together into one tremendously detailed image. I also wanted to print this really large - so I've used the "High-Res" mode of the Lumix. This takes 8 photos every time I press the button, slightly shifting the sensor for each, and combining them to quadruple the resolution. So in reality this single photograph is made up of 936 individual frames. This combination of extreme detail, high resolution, and wide angle, creates a marvellous optical illusion, tricking your brain into thinking the space is larger than it really is! These techniques remove the flags that tell us when something is small (narrow depth of field and focal compression). It's essentially the opposite of the tilt-shift effect. Lumix S1R Laowa 24mm Probe Lens 936 frames at 1 second f/14 100 ISO Part of my Architecture in Music series.
CharlesBrooks on October 9th, 2022 at 03:04 UTC »
Deep inside the action of a Steinway Grand Piano. All of the parts in this tiny space (less than 2cm in diameter) are hand carved, a fraction of more than 11'000 parts making up a typical Steinway Grand, and far more considering this is a Spirio R model which incorporates a whole host of electronics for recording and playback. I photographed this using a Lumix S1R camera and the fairly whacky Laowa 24mm probe lens. That lens wasn't quite small enough to fit into this space, so I melted off some of the outer casing with a heat gun to slim it down! To keep everything sharp I took 117 individual photos, each focused slightly further away from the last. These were then stacked together using Helicon Focus, some remarkable software which finds the in-focus areas of each shot and combines them all together into one tremendously detailed image. I also wanted to print this really large - so I've used the "High-Res" mode of the Lumix. This takes 8 photos every time I press the button, slightly shifting the sensor for each, and combining them to quadruple the resolution. So in reality this single photograph is made up of 936 individual frames. This combination of extreme detail, high resolution, and wide angle, creates a marvellous optical illusion, tricking your brain into thinking the space is larger than it really is! These techniques remove the flags that tell us when something is small (narrow depth of field and focal compression). It's essentially the opposite of the tilt-shift effect. Lumix S1R Laowa 24mm Probe Lens 936 frames at 1 second f/14 100 ISO Part of my Architecture in Music series.
noweirdosplease on October 9th, 2022 at 04:35 UTC »
I wanna live there
the_odd_truth on October 9th, 2022 at 13:36 UTC »
Such a cool idea