Another panorama from this place Henningsvær, this time from a different angle. The image is a 7x3 panorama made from 21 individual frames. It captures the sense of space and that special feeling of freedom you have there particularly well. To keep the panorama from looking too wide or unnaturally curved, I used a transverse Mercator projection. This way, it looks more natural and not as distorted as many classic 180 degree panoramas people are familiar with.
What was also quite funny there: several Asian tourists really wanted to watch and even took photos of my drone screen. Some of them asked right away if they could have the photo. More and more people kept coming over, probably because word had spread within the tour group. I also met guided photography tours there, and over the following days I kept running into them again. You would say hello, exchange a bit of small talk, and smile at each other. I also kept seeing some of the other tourists again later on. So even though I was traveling alone during the first week, I ended up in conversations all the time. Later I even had to take group photos, and once you end up in that role, it is not so easy to get out of it again. Next time I might just wear a cap that says free photo service.
Very curious and captivating image. Certainly draws me in for a deeper inspection.
Trying to wrap my head around the projection. It comes across as an inverse fisheye, with the vericals closest to the edge diverging from the image center. Like a fisheye, geometric distortion seems to increase proportional to distance from the image center.
The distant mountain coming through also introduces a bit of visual confusion, since it far higher in contrast than the forground.
