968 views Photo Uploaded: Oct 11 2006 00:04:33 GMT Taken: 2006:06:29 15:21:40 Manufacturer: Canon Camera: PowerShot S2 ISAperture: F4 Shutter: 1/400 sec Flash: No (Turned off) 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* | |