Cruising across Venice

This panorama shows the cruise called Costa Favolosa crossing the Canale di San Marco and the Canale della Giudecca going to the Stazione Maritima of Venice. That was the end of a cruise travel, my first and last cruise for now. It has been a hard-working year, and we selected for holidays this easy option. For me was a surprise crossing Venice, and indeed I am not agreeing about doing this in a historical city (I think now is forbidden).

I've selected this panorama as an example of seize the moment. I was travelling with my camera and when I realized about the route of the ship reaching Venice I went quickly to the top floor of the cruise. Having a look at the deck, the highest point to get a 360 degree panorama was the water slide. I went there, and even it was closed, I go up to the top. Unlucky a man realized about my position, and he followed me, then it's there in the pano (well, not to bad he was there indeed).

The view was fabulous (as the cruise name), more or less as to be at 17 floor of a building. The ship was moving fast against the background, my challenge was to shoot at least 6 vertical shots to cover 360 degrees, without any tripod, top and bottom could be done separately. I started with the more easy shots: the bow and the stern, then several shots in each side as fast as possible.

At the end, at home, after selecting the right ones and using Photoshop for playing with masks and with enough manual work I achieved this panorama.

This panorama is not totally true, indeed the San Giorgio Maggiore abbey was a bit displaced about its real position due to the ship shift, but I think beautiful anyway.

Europe / Italy

Lat: 45° 25' 51.431" N
Long: 12° 20' 30.509" E

→ maps.google.com [EXT]

Precision is: Medium. Nearby, but not to the last decimal.

Canon EOS 40D, Tokina fisheye 10-17, handheld, PTGui, Phtotoshop