Selected Super Resolution Panoramas

VR Tour

More recently in my Panorama career I have been shooting multi-row panoramas of extremely high resolution, ranging towards a billion pixels (sometimes known as gigapans.) Once you make them this big, web display does not do them justice, and in fact even small prints don't do it. Some of these deserve to be wall sized. For those interested in doing walls, here are some of the larger ones.

In addition these large shots are more amenable to cropping as they still have a lot of resolution.

Note that almost all of my shots from 2009 onwards are at least 5,000 pixels high which prints well at 24" high and decently at 48" high.

			moraine-500.jpg (2190 x 1100 - 505K) or VR/Zoom! 195° x 81° (.pano) Full size is 28039 x 14086 (395 Megapix) (For example, 5' 2" x 2' 7" at 454PPI)
Super detail Moraine Lake $20 view

Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta.

moraine24.jpg (2772 x 1100 - 592K) or VR/Zoom!	272° x 108° (Exif) Full size is 19828 x 7868 (156 Megapix) (6' 6" x 2' 7" at 253PPI)
360 of Moraine Lake

Shot on the same day, this hi-res shot captures the wider view (about 270 degrees) and more sky and moraine as well.

San Francisco from the end of the Golden Gate Bridge. Now the back wall of the Brick Yard tavern on Union St.

			gg50-pr.jpg (2303 x 1100 - 331K) or VR/Zoom! 146° x 62° (Exif) Full size is 14763 x 7050 (104 Megapix) (For example, 5' 5" x 2' 7" at 227PPI)
Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge from Marin headlands.

crowfoot.jpg (2563 x 1100 - 484K) or VR/Zoom!	163° x 60° (Exif) Full size is 24461 x 10497 (257 Megapix) (6' x 2' 7" at 338PPI)
Crowfoot Glacier

The Crowfoot Glacier overlook. I actually like this better in winter, with more exposed blue ice. That day the ice was mostly white.

seton-lake-70.jpg (3153 x 1100 - 699K) or VR/Zoom!	180° x 56° (Exif) Full size is 32291 x 11268 (364 Megapix) (7' 5" x 2' 7" at 363PPI)
Seton Lake

Seton Lake in British Columbia

			treas50-planar.jpg (1402 x 1100 - 326K) or VR/Zoom! 104° x 79° (Exif) Full size is 22381 x 17555 (393 Megapix) (For example, 3' 4" x 2' 7" at 566PPI)
The "Treasury" of Petra

The Treasury at Petra, Jordan

twinlakes.jpg (4154 x 1100 - 946K) or VR/Zoom!	271° x 63° (Exif) Full size is 41082 x 10880 (447 Megapix) (9' 9" x 2' 7" at 350PPI)
Twin Lakes

The Twin Lakes, coming into Banff from Kootenay National Park.

twin-a.jpg (10631 x 1100 - 1787K) or VR/Zoom!	188° x 19° (Exif) Full size is 104064 x 10768 (1120 Megapix) (12' 6" x 16" at 694PPI)
Twilight on Twin Peaks, San Francisco

Twin Peaks view of San Francisco. While this is a gigapixel shot, the air was not clear enough to justify it, but it's still my largest test.

mono-lake-vista.jpg (4794 x 1100 - 801K) or VR/Zoom!	170° x 37° (Exif) Full size is 44617 x 10237 (457 Megapix) (5' 8" x 15" at 660PPI)
View of Mono Lake

View of Mono Lake, California, coming down the hill from the north.

june-lake.jpg (3411 x 1100 - 1138K) or VR/Zoom!	186° x 53° (Exif) Full size is 24334 x 7848 (191 Megapix) (8' x 2' 7" at 253PPI)
June Lake

June Lake in the eastern Sierras in California.

high-sierra-big.jpg (5924 x 1100 - 1421K) or VR/Zoom!	161° x 29° (Exif) Full size is 43448 x 8067 (350 Megapix) (6' 11" x 15" at 520PPI)
The high Sierras

A section of the high eastern Sierra mountains

ceasaria-amph.jpg (2639 x 1100 - 527K) or VR/Zoom!	213° x 88° (Exif) Full size is 16950 x 7065 (120 Megapix) (6' 2" x 2' 7" at 227PPI)
Amphitheatre at Ceasaria above

The amphitheatre at Caesaria, in Israel.

			bahai-night.jpg (1479 x 1100 - 143K) or VR/Zoom! 31° x 21° (Exif) Full size is 9248 x 6879 (64 Megapix) (For example, 3' 10" x 2' 10" at 200PPI)
The Bahai temple of Haifa, at night

The Bahai temple in Haifa, Israel, at night.

dota-maga-360.jpg (21000 x 1076 - 3668K) or VR/Zoom!	360° x 18° (.pano) Full size is 155093 x 7948 (1233 Megapix) (25' 2" x 16" at 512PPI)
1.2 gigapixel BRC from 6:30 and Esplanade, 5pm Wednesday

A 1.2 gigapixel view of Black Rock City 2010.

			temple-sunset-150.jpg (2057 x 1100 - 412K) or VR/Zoom! 34° x 18° (Exif) Full size is 13318 x 7122 (95 Megapix) (For example, 5' 7" x 3' at 200PPI)
Temple at Sunset

Close up 94 megapixel shot of the Burning Man Temple at sunset.

murren.jpg (6471 x 1100 - 878K) or VR/Zoom!	360° x 56° (Exif) Full size is 51845 x 8813 (457 Megapix) (7' 7" x 15" at 568PPI)
Murren in winter

In the Berner Oberland, the view from the tiny town of Murren.

cham-1.jpg (2979 x 1100 - 599K) or VR/Zoom!	67° x 23° (Exif) Full size is 18042 x 6662 (120 Megapix) (7' x 2' 7" at 214PPI)
Mount Blanc

This is a close up detail on the mountains near Mt. Blanc. I shot a few of these and was distressed to see after the fact that I had goofed them up in really stupid ways. An effect of being up at 3800 metres of altitude!

grenoble-night.jpg (3303 x 1100 - 583K) or VR/Zoom!	149° x 46° (Exif) Full size is 23496 x 7826 (184 Megapix) (7' 9" x 2' 7" at 252PPI)
Fenoble at night

Grenoble, France at night.

lugano.jpg (4484 x 1100 - 576K) or VR/Zoom!	200° x 49° (Set) Full size is 33673 x 8260 (278 Megapix) (5' 3" x 16" at 532PPI)
Evening in Lugano

Lugano, Switzerland at dusk

			grenoble-town.jpg (1786 x 1100 - 619K) or VR/Zoom! 54° x 32° (Exif) Full size is 12570 x 7744 (97 Megapix) (For example, 5' 3" x 3' 3" at 200PPI)
Grenoble town close-up

A close up of the downtown of Grenoble.

			timessq-steps.jpg (1972 x 1100 - 422K) or VR/Zoom! 360° x 106° (Exif) Full size is 18801 x 10488 (197 Megapix) (For example, 4' 8" x 2' 7" at 338PPI)
Times Square from steps over TKTS building

Times Square from the steps over TKTS at Duffy Square.

The following shots are flawed but still interesting and large.

			al-jazzar-mosque.jpg (1439 x 1100 - 332K) or VR/Zoom! 151° x 115° (Exif) Full size is 10922 x 9015 (98 Megapix) (For example, 4' 7" x 3' 9" at 200PPI)
Al Jazzar Mosque

In Akko, an experiment with a multi-row spherical panorama to show the mosque. I like the cognitive dissonance of the traditional building with the LED display that reports prayer times.

dome-of-rock.jpg (2535 x 1100 - 344K) or VR/Zoom!	124° x 53° (.pano) Full size is 29334 x 14024 (411 Megapix) (5' 5" x 2' 7" at 452PPI)
Dome of the Rock, Super High Resolution

This is a super-high resolution shot of the Dome of the Rock, though I did not complete the sky.

temple-mount-day-high-2row.jpg (5365 x 1100 - 1140K) or VR/Zoom!	156° x 31° (.pano) Full size is 33361 x 6840 (228 Megapix) (6' 4" x 16" at 441PPI)
Temple mount in Jerusalem, West and South walls

A view of the temple at mid-day, very high resolution.