Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hankopan.jpg

 
A panorama shot from the water tower in Hanko, Finland
 
Full 360°, restitched by Ilmari Karonen
 
Middle 270° from the 360° image above
 
Middle 180° from the 360° image above

Ok, I'll try and see if I can even begin to compete with the magnificent panoramas shown here lately. This one is in the Hanko, Finland article, and shows the typical, mostly wooden architecture, and the coastline of a Finnish small town. Since the camera is looking straight into the sun, the burn-out in the water & sky is inevitable. I shot and stitched this 6 years ago. Back then, there were no good stitching programs available (the one that came with the camera was practically useless), so this is stitched completely manually. For this reason, there are some imperfections. I know some of you are looking for such, so maybe I'm not very wise in telling you this... ;-)

Unfortunately, the manual stitching didn't work further right - the more built-up area gave me no way of "cheating" with the stitching - and, to be honest, that part of town doesn't look as nice. But if anyone has some good stitching software, I can either e-mail or upload the nine original files (totaling 360°) for you to try - only 7.5 Mb... --Janke | Talk 17:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Diliff did try, but it appears that even his modern software and his considerable talent in using it couldn't handle this, since it is shot with a downward tilt, distorting the original images. If anyone else cares to try, either manually or with software, I'll give you the link to the original pics. Challenge time! ;-) --Janke | Talk 09:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Hankopan.JPG. Promoted original - all are good and several have some support but no clear consensus for any other version ~ VeledanTalk 00:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]