Wow. Wow wow wow wow.

[livius drusus]

Don't click if you're on dial-up. You must click if you're on a high speed connection. (http://framboise78.free.fr/Paris.htm)




It's an unbelievably huge panoramic picture of Paris by night. It's almost like being there, I swear, but it's 15000 pixels wide.

[Veritas]

Funky music. :dance:

[Crumb]

:qcool:
:joecool2:

[godfry n. glad]

Okay...I'd like to know how that is done.

It's a 360:degrees: panoramic NIGHT photo.

Sha-ZAM!

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Dude!

[MonCapitan2002]

Don't click if you're on dial-up. You must click if you're on a high speed connection. (http://framboise78.free.fr/Paris.htm)




It's an unbelievably huge panoramic picture of Paris by night. It's almost like being there, I swear, but it's 15000 pixels wide.
It is a lovely photograph and cityscape. Too bad there is that hideous skycraper in the background.

[Shelli]

Very nice. :=)

[ChuckF]

:8D


It is a lovely photograph and cityscape. Too bad there is that hideous skycraper in the background.
Indeed. The Tour Montparnasse is occasionally referred to as a decaying tooth in the middle of Paris.

[SharonDee]

Hideous skyscraper? I must have missed it because of my disgust at the freakin' TV antenna in my face.

But wow is right ... that's gorgeous!

[D. Scarlatti]

What's that modern structure to the left of Sainte Chappelle? Chuck?

* Not that the building is Chuck, but he'll probably know.

eta: That's not the Centre Pompidou, is it? It looks frickin' gigantic.

[MooseIBe]

i'm on dial up :( *feels horribly excluded and archaic*

[xyza]

That actually creates a strange effect as well, even though I know I was just scrolling from one side to another and it's flat I felt like I was moving around :scratch:

Oh, I'll be there this time tomorrow :muahaha:

[D. Scarlatti]

Okay, I've decided it's the Centre Pompidou. I just don't recall it being so ... looming from there. I think there's some serious foreshortening going on there, or something. Where is the photographer? It looks like he's hanging from a basket in front of the Notre Dame rose window.

See that big wedding cake up on the hill? That's where I used to live, up in behind there and to the left.

[ChuckF]

It is indeed the Pompidou. It looks pretty honking big.

[livius drusus]

Here's (http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/paris-360-110-text.htm) a version with labels on the major monuments, and here's (http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/paris-360-neige.htm) a more zoomed out view where you can tell he's shooting from a rooftop across from Notre Dame.

xyza, you're sooo lucky!

Moosie, if you have the time, open the link in a new window and just wait it out. It's totally worth it.

[D. Scarlatti]

Ah, that's handy. And I'm a total dumbass because I didn't mean Ste. Chappelle, I meant that really old medieval church inside the grounds of the law courts.*

* Palais de Justice. Jesus I'm totally confused and disoriented now. Have to check my own photos.

[ChuckF]

:doh: Of course that's the Tour Jussieu.

[D. Scarlatti]

The only photos I can find are of me posing beside the graves of Guy De Maupassant and Man Ray ("unconcerned but not indifferent," his tombstone reads). Those are definitely in Montparnasse.

[xyza]

xyza, you're sooo lucky
I know, I have a wonderful if not a bit moody boyfriend :smitten:


:egad: Did I just type that out loud ... Nobody tell him I typed that :shhh:

[xyza]

Okay...I'd like to know how that is done.

It's a 360:degrees: panoramic NIGHT photo.

Sha-ZAM!I've just been told how it's done and it isn't as you may think loads of pictures stitched together (there's software that does that).

There's 'true panoramic cameras', the explanation I was given is they can be mounted onto a tripod and will turn automatically with the shutter open recording the image over more than one frame.

A true panoramic camera records an image over more than one film frame, giving an image with elongated proportions.

This site (http://www.ephotozine.com/equipment/buyersguide/fullbuyersguide.cfm?buyersguideid=6) shows a range of them, and you can see the digital cameras towards the bottom can take full 360 degree pictures in under 8 seconds.

[livius drusus]

Right you are, xyza. The photographer explains his technique in detail on the site, but it's all in French (English version pending): Guide de la photo panoramique (http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/guide-photo-panoramique/guide-photo-panoramique.htm).