Place de la république, Lille

Handheld panorama of 54 pictures.
Part of my Wee planet set.

Next time I go to Lille I need to take a tripod with me and come back here.
It was a rainy, cold, and windy Saturday morning and I was supposed to save my camera's battery and memory for some bookcrossing event in the afternoon. Yet there is no way I could pass by such a place without wondering how it would look as a planetoid... I had to shoot it.

This is made from 54 pictures shot handheld, holding the camera in one hand, and my umbrella in the other. I didn't correct the exposures (PTblender is hard enough to use when everything is perfectly aligned, it's a waste of time on such a panorama.)

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Seb Przd says:

Very nice compass rose! it looks like it was added on the picture, and not on the ground.

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Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

velozipedist [affected by censoring] says:

wow, what a planet! I agree with Seb Przd, there's few distortion on the rose, how did you achieve this?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

tsevis says:

Great!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

alexispz says:

grat pano. Agree with Seb ! Must be easier to know by how much to turn for each picture...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Ch’guss says:

WOW !!! Remarquable :) Je suis fasciné par ces montages...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

gadl says:

The geometry of the place is hard to tell from the picture. The first picture on this page may help. The compas is on a dais, ~1.5m above the bottom of windows, so that's why you get this "overlaid" impression.

@velozipedist: I'm not sure what you meant about the distortions. This is a genuine stereographic projection: it preserves local angles, straight lines that radiate from the center as well as concentric circles. Therefor the only distortions you get on the compass is that the edges of the arrows are slightly bent.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

velozipedist [affected by censoring] says:

thanks gadl, that's exactly what I meant.
"few" distortions in a sense of "hardly any".
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

chulinetti says:

C'est vraiment très beau Gadl. Je trouve que c'est l'une de tes Weeplanet les plus imaginatives et les plus réussies. Je l'aime beaucoup.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Ch’guss says:

Congrulations !

www.flickr.com/groups/lille_fr/discuss/720575 94100288439/
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Stox - Ideas Playground says:

Superbe !!!

► You are invited to post this gorgeous photography in the
ideas playground pool !!!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

stefaniemrowka says:

c'est superbe! Le résultat est magnifique! La rosace est parfaite!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

Nice location Alexandre.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Thomas Claveirole says:

Super ! Avec la rosace au milieu, c'est magnifique.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

compscigrad says:

very cool!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

andy pallister says:

very very good !
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Ogivio says:

Unbelievable.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

pano_philou says:

J'apprécie la photo, en pensant aussi à tous les efforts déployés pour obtenir une image aussi réussie, avec 54 photos, hand-held et oublié l'exposition constante...! Belle ténacité ! Tout le Set est beau !
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

gadl says:

Merci! L'exposition constante n'est pas oubliée : mon appareil photo ne la permet pas, tout simplement ! C'est juste que d'habitude je passe un peu plus de temps pour tenter de corriger ces défauts.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Seb Przd says:

I just noticed, the equirectangular image is not uploaded to flickr? maybe because the sky is missing?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

exaklaus says:

Wow, love it!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

LensReflux says:

This rules. Nice work
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Architectural Orphans says:

Good job! I still can't figure out where you were standing when you took the shots!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

szc says:

just wonderful!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

theodordh says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Great stock shots, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

亨利仔 says:

It's very great!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

| dak | says:

this photo is incredible. your work really blows my mind,
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Archie Tolentino says:

54 shots!? WOW!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

antonio.gramaxo says:

Congratulations for the result!!
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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