Thanks for the compliment and the rotunda lighting was all natural. I'm almost positive that I used three exposures a piece for the up and down view as it is a true 180 plus degree view. I shot a spherical 360 x 180 panorama in there and it just did not really impress me like seeing it first hand. Thought of doing this shot because to get a scope of the actual beauty you have to see the hole in the floor and how it reaches up into the dome which is huge and looks like a majestic painting when photographed by itself. The downside of the photo is that the lens compresses it all making it look like a smaller area plus from the distortion correction a lot of the width had to be lost to the crop. I Should have considered stretching the photo length wise to make it look more accurate but I didn't do it at the time.


Here is a straight up shot of the ceiling taken with a 30D and the 17-55IS lens years before. As you can tell I like to look up at things.


[img]/themes/generic/utility/ State capitol ceiling by freelanceshots, on Flickr[/img]