This 360° panoramic image was shot on Ferryquay Street in Derry just after sunset on New year's day 2008. The Christmas decorations were still in place as the shoppers visit the New year sales.
The dark street to the left is Artillery Street, with the Java coffee shop on the corner leads up past the, now refurbished, Playhouse Theatre. To the right Market Street leads past the Halo Pantry and Grill to Derry‘s other major entertainment venue The Millennium Forum.
The large form in the lower part of the image is Ferryquay Gate - one of the four original archways through the historic city walls.
Straight ahead lies Ferryquay Street leading, past the shoppers to The Diamond, the centre of the walled city.
The panorama was created by combining 24 separate digital photographs covering every angle and with bracketed exposures. These were blended into a rectangular panorama that was then rendered as this characteristic shamrock shape by using a Stereographic transformation.
Because of the way that it was created this is a very high resolution image (the equivalent of about 80-megapixels). It is capable of delivering very fine detail even when printed at massive sizes.
It can be printed so large that it tests the limits of Imagekind‘s framing service. You could print it at:
- 24″x24″ and frame it with a 4″ to 6″ mat
- 36″x36″ and frame it with no mat at all, or with one up to a 2"
- 36″x36″ on canvas
- 44″x44″ on paper and have it framed elsewhere.
At sizes up to 24″ square it will look good. At the larger sizes it is a real stunner!