wow amazing long exposure panaramic i really like it, incredible, great shot

--
Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine
KILLING MOON
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When I looked the thumbnail, I was surprised, "wow, is it my picture [link] ?" No, it is not. It's a really nice work.

I do work sometimes with panorama assemblies, and I think assembly then in Photoshop using Free Transform and eraser brush is the best way. But I saw you hi-res image, and it is perfect: impossible to distinguish the junctions. Did you already print it, put in a frame and hang in yur room wall ? You should !

Man, nice work, congratulations !

Why didn't you submit the full version? Comparing the two i see that there are many details that make up the ambiance hardly visible in this resize (the details in fact are there now that i know they are ). For example the crowds along the quayside on the right or in the front esplanades, the lighted windows, the textures on the water and some walls. 700 KB is not a too big file for DA standards and since we have to scroll it horizontally... (maybe it's because i have 1600x1200 settings, it really fits well).
You did an excellent work, no stitch is visible, it looks as a single image taken with a fisheye lens (hence the curving effect) and croped. The exposure is perfect, even the halo is not at all disturbing and i like two details close to it that can make the overall mood of this picture, a romantic couple in a contemplating attitude and a family group. The number of people along all the places is amazing, it seems a very cosmopolitan place but at the same time maintaining its traditions and a familiar popular ambiance. I like how all the image seems centered on the most elevated part of the town with the church tower and fortress, concentrating around and then becoming gradually more sparse to the sides. I would only make a slight crop at the right in order to exclude the man in white shirt and maybe the sitted person too.

Congratulations for this wonderful work!

> Why didn't you submit the full version? Comparing the two i see that there are many details
> that make up the ambiance hardly visible in this resize (the details in fact are there now that
> I know they are ). For example the crowds along the quayside on the right or in the front
> esplanades, the lighted windows, the textures on the water and some walls.
> 700 KB is not a too big file for DA standards and since we have to scroll it horizontally...
> (maybe it's because i have 1600x1200 settings, it really fits well).

I figured out that being a panoramic image it was more important to see more of the whole landscape at once instead of the details.
And more importantly, not everybody uses 1600x1200, most people still use 1024x768 at most. The full size image is 1123 pixes of height, so it would require vertical scrolling at that resolution. 600px of height it the only one that fits in 768px of vertical resolution (considering all the crap toolbars people usually attach to their browser windows).
But one thing I will surely try to do: make the link to the full version image stand out a lot more, so that everyone can get a chance to check out the large image.

> You did an excellent work, no stitch is visible, it looks as a single image taken with a fisheye > lens (hence the curving effect) and croped.

Using a fisheye is something I want to try sooner or later, but with my current camera I don't have the possibility to attach lens extensions, so for now I can't do that and use stitching software to obtain the same result. And probably even with a fisheye lens stitching 2 shots would have been needed to cover such a large field of view (in this case it was more than 180°, if I remember correctly).

> I like two details close to it that can make the overall mood of this picture, a romantic
> couple in a contemplating attitude and a family group.

The people in the center of the image is one of the things that I like a lot of this picture myself.
They were quite messy to stitch tough, because they were near the camera and kept moving.

> The number of people along all the places is amazing, it seems a very cosmopolitan place
> but at the same time maintaining its traditions and a familiar popular ambiance

There was a major religious festival going on, and people from all over the surrounding tourist towns were coming to see it, along with a lot of the rich elite and their yachts.
It was a huge mess, and just walking around from place to place to shoot other photos was a problem (see also this other deviation from the same night).
But it was fun : )

> I would only make a slight crop at the right in order to exclude the man in white shirt and
> maybe the sitted person too.

Great idea ! I didn't notice that at first, but now that you point it out, I see that it's completely out of place, it contrasts too much with the black background of the sea. I will crop out that part soon.

Thanks for all the kind words and most of all for your constructive criticism !

Thank you for one of the best replies i had to my comments. It really encourages me to keep on commenting the way i do. I will try to view and comment the other deviations if i get a decent connection... not the case at this moment.

i have to say, i'm not faving this submission because i like the picture you've submitted but because of the full version you have linked to. thank you for the link