There has been a Christian Church in Hernhill since Saxon times. The Saxon wooden structure was replaced in 1120 by a stone and wood church dedicated to St Stephen. Masonry from the original 12th century building is still identifiable today in the south wall..
The present stone and flint church, dedicated to St Michael, was constructed on the same site in about 1450. It is an excellent example of a purpose built 15th century church and is one of a few wholly perpendicular churches in Kent. The Main Door into the church and the Bell Tower door are fine examples of 15th century joinery, as is the 16th century rood screen.
The interior of the church was restored in the 19th century and consequently much of the church furniture dates from this period. Like many other churches, St Michael’s Church has been subjected to additions and alterations throughout its history and the most recent extension to create the Lady Chapel was carried out in 1928. The Bell Tower houses eight bells that were refurbished in 1997 and are rung by a dedicated band of campanologists.
HernHill
Kent
England
16 Frames combined in auto giga pano , 5 exposures combined in photomatix , tonemapped and levels in color efex pro / corel.
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This was my largest project to date , i've always wanted to do a large interior shot comprised of many viewpoints and retain the hdr but as natural as possible. I wrote down my exposures and made sure that the exposures were as constant as possible but having enough detail throughout. I used a tripod and panned across different areas of the church making sure i had not missed any out that the eye could see.
However when i got home things didn't go so good at first , when i joined the many different stitches there was large exposure problems even though each exposure was the same in camera and combined in photomatix. So i had to manually overexposure the underexposed photo's to get them to be equal in autogiga which took more time and effort. Once they had been joined up , autogiga did not stitch part of the benches up correctly even though it had plenty of stitch points and overlap to do so. I tried again and again , in a last ditch effort i fixed some of the control points and did a smart render , finally it stitched up correctly.
Thinking it was all ready for the detailing , the app crashed and the picture wasn't able to be opened. So again i had to restitch it all up and it was getting late. I was finally able to do my tonemapping , details in color efex pro and anything else in corel.
Total Time , over 2 1/2hrs could've even been 4
HUGE PHOTO - 4358 x 3093
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4501723807_f236af20a6_o.jpg
The bay further on up the road was nice.
All my shots are direct from the camera.
