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portrait James Gentles
School Family
Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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For 6 years my son has been part of the family at The Royal High School in Edinburgh, a school that can trace its roots back to 1128, although it has only occupied this site since 1968.

In just over a week he will leave school for the last time. In the opening view of the panorama, towards the left, there is a flight of steps out of the building leading to a paved area beside the playing fields. Once a year the door here, it was added after having been taken from the previous school building, which opens into the School Hall, is used.

On the last day of School he will shake hands with the Rector in the School Hall and symbolically leave schools forever by passing into the world through the door and down the steps.

He will still be part of the family, but now an alumni.

Behind the scene : how this panorama was made

Location Map Geographic Coordinates:
Latitude: 55° 57' 50.4" N
Longitude: 3° 17' 4.2" W
Elevation: 70m ASL + 40m AGL
Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.

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Date/Time:
Monday, June 20, 2011, 19:46 local, 18:46 U

Equipment:
Nikon 8400 with FC-E9 Lens. Homemade camera cradle/rig, triggered by a gentLED intervalometer. Suspended below a Dan Leigh R8 Cruiser kite with 6ft/2m span.

This technique produces two hemispheres, and a different workflow in PTGui from the classic ground pano technique. This results in lower resolution BUT impossible angles!

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