File talk:Al-Bayda curbside rotation A.png

Location?

 * ''Saved redundant comments from this edit. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 14:22, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm making a graphic of the scene at different rotations, but handily, we have two different shadows to work with. Al-Ikhbariya's view shows a shaded side but no real building shadow, saying the sunlight is coming on about their line of sight. The panorama has the whole road and visible side in shadow, meaning a lower sun. That could mean later afternoon, but I'm suspecting early morning. That would make this road run roughly east-west. Ikbariya's sun would then be late afternoon, near sunset. It seems higher up than that, however. I tried solar noon, makes the other view no existing time, sun from almost due north. Graphic when I work out the details and think a bit more. --Caustic Logic (talk) 12:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Am I doing this right? Petri, CE, anyone else reading this: which rotation makes more sense? And did I set it up about right to reflect both basic shadow directions seen? A leaves us pretty locked into the time-frames near sunrise and sunset. B leaves the range more open to different variations. Or, is it possible the Ikbariya shot is more like mid-day as it almost seems (tree's shadow)? That would mean the road is about north-south, and I'm a considerably off on the shadowline of the rebel video and it's at about sunset, which I don't think is so. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Finding the spot: One basic rotation should work best and say what way that road runs and which way it bends, and where the various features should be. This will help find a match on the map. Without this, I could find nothing. Here's one spot that seems to match in some regards, mismatch in a few others including now the two best orientations, I think. I gave myself a headache trying to figure this out, so that's why I'm putting out there for a fresh perspective. As for the city, it's possible the footage, rebel especially, could be in another regional town like Maqrab. But that the Ikhbariya crew ostensibly in al-Bayda filmed it as well with no mention (we could decipher) of this being somewhere else. So let's only say it's not al-Bayda once we've exhausted all options there, which don't seem to be all that plentiful. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)