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It’s been a long time since I published my last panorama here,
but I was very busy. The next WWP event is coming, and I didn’t
even published my submission from december. Unfortunately I missed
the autumn event, the theme was colours. I had the idea of a large
colorful theme park, but had flu and didn’t want to go out in the cold.

Anyway, this one is from march 2008, so it is one year old. I remember
those days, the wind blowed very heavy, all the internal shots were done
long ago, I missed only some external panoramas around the university to
make the virtual tour ready.
Alas it was not a good choice to shoot the outdoor scenes in march,
you cannot see the beautiful flora around the university surroundings.

This panorama was taken at the main dormitory of the Szent Istvan Egyetem,
the second, newly built one will be the subject of my next upload.

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The lack of field of view gives this panorama a dreamy,
outerworld feel. Altough the aperture was not too wide
(source pictures was made 12mm@F8.0),
the lens was focused at it’s minimum distance, cca 30cm.

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The lack of field of view gives this panorama a dreamy, outerworld feel. Altough the aperture was not too wide (source pictures was made 12mm@F8.0), the lens was focused at it’s minimum distance, cca 30cm.

I had a dream 2 months before this panorama. I dreamt about a low field of view panorama, in that blooms can be seen and nothing else, the background would be blurry.

The subject gave me some difficulty, as I don’t have any special mounting device to bring the whole tripod to a top of a tree. And I didn’t want any building and other artifical things in the background. Fortunately I have found a spot just in time, before these blooms disappeared: these offshoots were all over the place with full of blossoms. The location was almost perfect, apart from the sandy soil in one direction, and the smoke at the horizon in another direction.

There was a touch of motion blur because of the wind, and some PS unsharp mask is resonsible for the dreamy effect too. As a result not always the nearest blooms are the sharpest.

It is to mention, that usually low field of view panoramas are not so immersive and therefore much like a blunder. Before this I had taken a similar low FoV panorama at a red poppy field, but that was a “half-disaster”. I think though that this panorama was a good effort, and my 40km bicycle ride with the full equipment and the tripod on my back was not purposeless.

So to speak my dream came true…

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