[360° Donegal, HDR, Ireland, Irish, Kilcar, panorama, postcard, Slieve League, sky in, street, village, >500 >1,000 >2,000 views, one feature]

1. 5 th May 2013 View Count reached 2,015

1. Featured in one RedBubble group: Around The World

This HDR panorama started as 27 separate Canon Raw Images (9 bracketed exposures) shot on a Canon EOS 5D stitched and blended by Hugin + Enfuse. (See Method for details.)

Kilcar is located on the main tourist route between the fishing port of Killybegs and the cliffs of Slieve League (the highest sea cliffs in Europe).
 
Kilcar is promoted as “the gateway to the Donegal Gaeltacht”. At one end of the main street is a church at the other end are two textile factories. (Donegal’s primary tweed weavers.) In between there are a few shops and five pubs.
 
The two visitors (I guess from their accents that they were German) on the bench outside the pub took a keen interest in watching my back while I took the shots needed for this panorama, calling out “Do not DIE for your art!” whenever a vehicle loomed up. Most drivers were patient – there was only one occasion when I had to grab the tripod and dive for the pavement!
 

 This image occurs in my Donegal Calendar at Cafe Press. It is part of my postcard range. You can follow on to another gorgeous Very Ireland Post card .

This stereographic panorama was shot on the main street of the village of Kilcar, in SW Donegal, Ireland. It is one of a pair of stereographic panoramas both generated from the same set of images. The other is

The other version is used as the cover of my Redbubble Calendar: Panoramic Views of Ireland

History of this Image at RedBubble
This image was uploaded to RedBubble on

1. 16th September 2010
2. 16th December 2010 view count reached 111
3. It has been featured in the RedBubble group Around The World
4. 2nd November 2011 view count reached 505

Method
This HDR (High Dynamic Range) panorama was created by combining 27 separate digital photographs covering every angle and with bracketed exposure. Hence there is detail both in the most brightly lit areas and in the shadows.
 
The Source images were shot on a Canon EOS 5d DSLR with a 16 mmm fisheye lens, and were stitched and blended into a HDR Panorama using Hugin – a free open-source panorama stitching program.