I seems I’ve been doing a lot of panoramas lately. I like the panoramic format, and once you start looking at the world as a potential panorama subject, it seems you see them everywhere. I guess it’s the nature of our world that it’s mostly horizontal. Most panoramas are done by stitching multiple images together in Photoshop, so you end up with a higher resolution image than you would normally get with a photo straight from your camera.
This image was stitched from five individual frames, each taken with the camera rotated for a vertical, or portrait, orientation. The result is a huge, 215 megapixel image that takes up nearly 6 gigabytes of space on my hard drive. The payoff for investing that many pixels and bytes is an enormous about of detail. It’s hard to appreciate the detail in a web sized image, but you can click on the photo to see a larger version of the Peoria skyline.
Also, look at the detail in this close-up crop from near the center of the image. You can easily read the time on the clock just beyond the the Spirit of Peoria. I’m not sure what I’d do with it, but I’d like to make a print 10 feet wide. I’ve noticed that people get entranced with very large, highly detailed photos and enjoy picking out the little details.
