Boston, 68 megapixels

From the 4th shooting location of the morning... I decided to try a larger pano. This was 3 rows of 5 images coming out to 68 megapixels after editing. It's almost 15,000 x 5,000 pixels.

This is so cool. You do a terrific job of sewing them together. I'm jealous, I've tried this but never can get it good enough to post. You da man

OK now I am confused! This is the one that should be in the halls of the Chamber of Commerce. Ok maybe both should be side by side. Oh I don't know. I really like both of your shots a lot.
Great work.

Very nice pano. I find it very difficult to do panos vertically and horizontally. It can be very easy to lose your place when shooting. I am surprised the lighting is so consistent, did you balance the channels a lot or was this a pure Photomerge result?

That would make a great, albiet expensive, print.

I have to agree with jgjulio.
If these aren't hanging in prominent city offices and public spaces, it's only because they haven't seen them yet.

Incredible work, Scottes!

I agree, losing your place is easy and it really sucks when you don't find out until you get home. It's happened several times to me.

I think that detents or "click stops" are the way to go, but most of the inexpensive pano heads don't have them. I think only the KingPano has detents when considering the multi-row heads under $200. But they're usually set too wide for me, since I like to do telephoto panos since I don't like the distortions of wide or normal lenses.

So for the "big guns" - shots like this at 180mm or even greater - I use a gear head, the Bogen 410 compact. This thing is *great* for telephoto panos. One full revolution of any of the knobs rotates the head about 7.5 degrees. So a quarter-turn does ~1.8 degrees and it's very easy to get +/- 0.2-degree accuracy. With this shot all of the images lined up to within 200 pixels of where it was supposed to be.

That is really cool, can you do the same thing at night, that would be awesome. Great shooting.............J​oe

NICE SCOTTES... I was driving around in Boston lost for about an hour last thursday...was supposed to be across the charles in Cambridge but found myself behing Fenway!!!

Anyhow, I finally found my way back across the river and was gonna shoot a pano of boston from the Cambridge side but as I was already late decided to just get done and get back to CT. Hey, I passed the New England School of Photography ( i think thats what it was called) did you go there?
-zacker-

Very nice!

Jopfin, I do want to try this at night but it will be tougher since to stitch because there's so much less information in each image. I'll probably have to overlap quite a bit , but still I'll have problems because of the empty sky portions. I'll have to get lucky with a starry night perhaps.

Zacker, it's pretty easy to get lost in Boston! The one-way streets will get you every time. And Boston truly defines that old statement: "Ya justabout caynt git theah from heah." And no, I didn't go to chool for this stuff - I just hack and stumble my way through taking pictures, and some of them turn out OK.

Another Awesome Pano. It really is amazing how you get them so good.

Any or all of those I've seen should be offered to the local council, chamber of commerce, tourist office, big local companies, building owners, ANYONE you can get to buy them and put them up. They so totally deserve to be seen by just about anyone with an interest in Boston - or photography in general!

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this and others with us. I always look forward to your posts.

Scott, you're straining our vocabulary out here. My bag of superlatives is just about empty. But, this is another wonderful picture.

wow.. i bet you could almost zoom right the way into any window on any building and work out what they are doing in there.. Nice shot.

Almost... Here's a couple 100% crops:

How long does it take your PC to regurgitate normal Photoshop changes to an image that size?

Whatever it is, it’s clearly worth the trouble. That’s just gorgeous. I’d love to see a 12’-wide print of this sometime.