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Casa Poporului / Palatul Parlamentului (People's House / The Palace of the Parliament), Bucharest.
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.
The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauşescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. Nicolae Ceauşescu named it the House of the Republic (Casa Republicii), but many Romanians call it the People's House (Casa Poporului).
The Palace measures 270 m by 240 m, 86 m high, and 92 m under ground. It has 1,100 rooms, 2 underground parking garages and is 12 stories tall, with four additional underground levels currently available for the general public and in use, and another four in different stages of completion.
The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple sources, in an eclectic neoclassical architectural style. The building is constructed almost entirely of materials of Romanian origin. Estimates of the materials used include one million cubic meters of marble from Transylvania, most from Ruşchiţa; 3,500 tonnes of crystal — 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured; 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals; 900,000 m³ of wood (over 95% domestic) for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore maple; 200,000 m² of woollen carpets of various dimensions (machines had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets); velvet and brocade curtains adorned with embroideries and passementeries in silver and gold.
source: wikipedia.org
Panorama from 10 vertical images.
Night shoot, long exposures, tripod used.
Photo session with ~azrael-x64
Criticism encouraged.
Canon EOS 40D + Sigma 18-125mm.
New series: Bucharest by night. Enjoy.
More Night Shots in my Gallery here.
More Structures in my Gallery here.
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Image size
6304x1291px 3.59 MB
Shutter Speed
16/10 second
Aperture
F/11.0
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Jan 12, 2010, 6:03:33 PM
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Overall Vision Originality Technique ImpactHow do you critique such a wonderful work?
I'll touch on the comments first, outstanding. It is a pleasure to find photographers that take the time to post a comment with the history of the shot. It not only allows the viewer an insight into the history of what you are photographing, it also allows us as viewers to connect with the shot as you see it.
Next the actual photo, as grand as this building is, there is no better way to capture it than a panorama shot. You have done an excellent job in stitching the shots together to show the scale of this building. The shot is very well lite throughout and is also well composed. I only see two problems. One, in my opinion, it is too wide. There is a lot of extra space on both the right and left sides that don't need to be there to convey the scale of the shot. Cropping both right and left sides in to somewhere between the 1st and 2nd poles on the outside of the building will allow you to focus more on the building and remove a lot of dead space. Second, the posted size is a little to large as well. You have to scale off of the screen to see the whole picture, however if you cropped out the sides it would resolve this. Other than that outstanding shot and excellent historical comment!