We’ve just completed a new image and added it to our website at www.BeeHappyGraphics.com/gallery/BokTower.html. As the blog title says, it is a Gigapan or large panorama using, in this case, 336 photographs arranged in 16 columns, each with 21 photographs, all taken with Nancy’s telephoto lens set at 135 mm so that we get a lot of detail. As a result, it could be printed up to 43 feet by 31 feet on canvas with the same sharpness as any of our other pictures.
This is a seemingly simple composition. I think Nancy captured the tower well, and the framing and leading lines help keep you focused on the subject. The editing took several days; because of the large image size, every tweak takes much longer, even with my ‘new’ computer. And, of course, I am still near the beginning of the learning curve on all the tools.
Bok Tower is called “the singing tower” because of the 60-bell carillon in the tower that still performs daily.
Although this is the second such panorama published, it is not the second Gigapan taken. We captured this image over a year earlier than Eclipse Over Long Pine Key, which was our first, and still the most complicated image we’ve processed so far. And we still have several other Gigapans, just like we have many smaller photos from our travels waiting their turn to be edited.
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