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1. 5 th June 2013 Achieved its Thirteenth feature in the group A Meaningful Moment

1. 26 th May 2013 Won the Wide Outdoors challenge in the Low Light group.

The source images were shot on a Canon EOS 5d DSLR with a 16mm fisheye.

1. 15th May 2013 View Count has reached 5,017

Featured in Thirteen Redbubble groups, including: Zingers, Theme Thursday – Feature Friday, The landscapes of our world, The World as we See it, Canon DSLR, A Paradise somewhere…, Beachscapes and Serenity (see below for details).

Now Moville Shoreline is available as an iPhone cover.
 
This 360° panorama was taken at twilight on the shoreline of Lough Foyle between the town of Moville and the fishing port of Greencastle on the Eastern coast of the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.

In the nineteenth century Moville was the final embarkation point for many emigrants who left this area for a new life in America. In the mid-twentieth century Moville had many of the qualities of a sea-side town for outings by the population of the City of Derry which lies twenty miles up river.

The panorama is shown here as an equi-rectangular image with a 2:1 aspect ratio, that is, it represents a 360° view left to right and 180°s top to bottom.

The same scene is also available here as a Stereographic panorama:

Method
This High Dynamic Range (HDR) panoramic image was created by combining 27 separate digital photographs covering every angle and with bracketed exposures (mid and +/- 2 stops). Hence the detail has been captured both in the brightest areas of the sky and in the shadows between the rocks. The photographs were shot under pressure as the tide came in, widening the gaps between the rocks on which the tripod stood.

The source images were shot on a Canon EOS 5d DSLR with a 16mm fisheye lens and stitched together using the free open-source program Hugin, which in turn invokes a program called Enfuse to blend the exposures and create the HDR effect.

Because of the way that it was created this is a very high resolution image (the equivalent of about 32-megapixels). It′s capable of delivering very fine detail even when printed at massive sizes.

I have written a short journal entry introducing the method by which these panoramas are created, it is called:
“Creating a Stereographic Panorama – the Basic Idea”

 

History of This Image on RedBubble
This was the first image that I uploaded that was not a stereographic panorama.

1. 5 th June 2013 Achieved its Thirteenth feature in the group A Meaningful Moment

1. 30 th May 2013 Achieved its Twelfth feature in the group World wide Sunsets
2. 18 th May 2013 Achieved its Eleventh feature in the group 5

1. 15th May 2013 View Count has reached 5,017

1. 2nd March 2013 Achieved its Tenth features in the group A Paradise somewhere…

1. 26th January 2013 Sold as an iPhone cover

1. 11th January 2013 View count reached 4,004 views
2. 25th September 2012 View count reached >3,000 views
3. 10th July 2012 Sold as a 18″×9″ Print to someone in the USA
4. 17th August 2011 it had been viewed 1001 times
5. 17th January 2011 it had been viewed 501 times and made a favourite by 10 people.
6. 9th May 2010 Sold as a Greetings Card
7. 24th April 2010 it had been viewed 102 times
8. 10th April 2010 uploaded to RedBubble

It has been featured by ten Redbubble groups:

1. “Canon DSLR”
2. “The World as we See it”
3. “The landscapes of our world”
4. “Beachscapes” .
5. “Theme Thursday – Feature Friday”
6. 25rd February 2012 Zingers
7. 4th March 2012 Serenity
8. 7th September 2012 Featured for the Eighth time in red ubble group this time in the group featured For a Challenge
9. 21 st February 2013 Achieved its Nineth feature in the group A Paradise somewhere…
10. 2nd March 2013 Achieved its Tenth features in the group A Paradise somewhere…

On 26 July 2011 RedBubble highlighted this image on its Featured Photographs page – it suddenly had over 100 views in a couple of hours.
 

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I have three collections here of panoramas mostly presented as stereographic images, they are panoramas of:

Donegal	Derry
The Aran Islands