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What was my best panorama in the past year? Every year that's a difficult question that I have to answer for the "Best Of" event at the WWP at the end of the year. This year I started with pole shooting, so one of my pole shots should become the entry for the "Best Of" event. What I like most with pole shots is the unique perspective, especially if there are lots of people and you use the pole to get your equipment above these people. So I have chosen the Ironman Germany competition in Frankfurt this year. I shot about a dozen panoramas at this event but what I like most are the crowds on the Römerberg shortly after the first female participant (Chrissie Wellington) reached the finish in 8:51:24.7.

Making Of

The shooting was done with a 3.15 meter (appx. 10.33 ft) pole to reach a more elevated viewpoint above the people. The pole was extended to its full length. The lens was mounted with a custom made bracket, which allows to mount the lens to turn around the no-parallax point of the lens.

As the lens is a fisheye lens, four pictures easily cover 360°. To be sure I took three exposures at each direction. The exposures were 0.7 f-stops apart. The best exposed set was chosen before stitching.

Nadir and zenith were retouched manually.

Links

• Ironman Germany

• Chrissie Wellington @ english wikipedia

• Chrissie Wellington @ german wikipedia

• 3.15 meter (appx. 10.33 ft) pole

Geographic Coordinates: Latitude: 50° 6' 36.7" N Longitude: 8° 40' 54.86" E Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot. Show at MultiMap.com [what is MultiMap?] Show at Google Maps [what is Google Maps?] Show in Google Earth* [what is Google Earth?] * requires Google Earth installed on your computer Date/Time: July 6, 2008, 13:37 UTC (15:37 local time) Equipment: Camera: Sony Alpha 700 Lens: Sigma 8mm f/4 fisheye Mounting: Custom made lens bracket mounted on top of a 3.15 meter (appx. 10.33 ft) pole Software: Panotools, PTGui, Smartblend, Photoshop CS3, Pano2VR 4 pictures @ 90° / ISO 200