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This is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Really! It's just a different kind of view. :)
Anyway, it was hard to take those shots while I was standing under this monument, even though my camera has a panoramic helping mode. You can see that it's not even to the "top" (exact: the other side of the arc). And my stitching program always is doing a small fish-eye effect on it when the picture becomes too big.
Another thing is the size: This is just a small part of the original pixels. The original pictures (8 pics) altogether formed a panoramic picture of about 130 megapixels. My PC was hard at the edge while calculating this, one of those part-pictures had about 500 MB (we're talking about tiff format here, almost like raw formats: no compression, but important for editing!) and I had to wait until 8 of them had been onto my disk and as 130 MPix result picture there had been 200 MB left. After cutting and editing it the way I wanted it, it had about 74 megapixels and a size of about 100 MByte. This also was much too big for fotothing, of course. So I trimmed it down to 20 megapixels and with 40% quality I got a JPEG image of about 1 megabyte which you can see here.It surely has some stitching errors, but I spend almost 1 hour on it so I thought: you have to see it! :)
And always remember: this is just a third of the original picture and therefore it has a "very worse quality"...*smile*
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Oct 11 2006 07:35 GMT losp

Great, great panorama .. haha, only 1/3 of the whole
Arc de Triomphe in Paris ( already 8 fotos taken for
this panoramic pic) .. I admire your efforts, dedication
and patience on such works of arts .. it's beyond me,
even in understanding ! .. I'll try to digest your given
figures and find some meaningful concepts behind them;
thanks for your presentation as such. .. And my very best
wishes in your every progress and success over such
photography challenges now and in weeks/months to come. ~~
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Oct 11 2006 07:49 GMT uwp
Thank you losp! But the 1/3 is standing for pixel-size. When it comes about the whole arc, it's maybe just 15-20% what we can see here on this picture. Ok, this really is more art than a real picture, Picasso would like it, but most people will say: huh? What's this? I must admit, that I'm on their side very often, so even for me such pictures are hard to understand if the artist want to express something. I just can say: I didn't want to express anything, I have been just experimenting and that's one of the results of many experiments. BTW, about 10% of all experiments work, The remaining 90% normally will be dropped into the trashcan. Either because the stitcher can't make a good picture out of it or it just looked better when I captured it. So you have to flash lots of chips for just getting small output...:(
Oct 11 2006 08:09 GMT losp

Thanks .. I agree with your view: freedom of artistic expression,
especially the mind .. the greater the experimenting, the better
the luck or the degree of success. .. I also believe in the concept
of 1- 5% inspiration and 95 - 99% perspiration. .. My very best
wishes to you towards this goal of yours. ~~
Oct 11 2006 08:54 GMT freddyhagen
Well, i'm not Picasso, but i kind of like your image. But you should ad a bit more light and a bit more contrasts. Need to get a clearer view of the ornamental walls.
Oct 11 2006 20:13 GMT uwp
Picassos grandson freddyhagen likes my picture! That's good! :))))
I don't think I'll change this picture anymore. It would have been better to have more light and contrasts while capturing it. But in panoramic mode it's not possible to increase exposure times with my camera...:(