Sept. 28, 2023. 9:15am. -- On this particular morning, as I was walking along the north shore of Maroon Lake I couldn't help but notice this patch of white daisies still blooming even though it was late September. I watched as several people took cell phone shots of the daisies with the Bells in background, a beautiful shot for sure. As I viewed the scene I realized that there was hardly a breath of wind so the flowers were nearly motionless, an essential requirement for doing a focus bracketed set of images. With such a beautiful scene I contemplated if I could pull off shooting a gigapixel wall mural of this beauty God had provided us on this glorious morning. Always up for a challenge to capture God's creation in a gigapixel wall mural, I decided I would position my tripod about 3ft above the ground, some 6 ft from the daisies (which is as close as my 300mm lens will focus) and attempt to included them in a shot with them as the prominent foreground subject. Plus as a bonus, the lake was nearly a mirrored surface reflecting the yellow Aspens on the foot hills of the Bells. A couple pairs of ducks quietly fed along the shoreline as I was shooting. I spent the better part of 30 minutes shooting the set of images that went into creating this shot.
This is an focus stacked image shot with a Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens at f/11, 1/500th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 4818 images with the majority of the the images in the lower half of the image being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 132 individual Focus Stacked images, 6 rows x 22 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation.
The original image is:
2.85 Giga-pixels
37,788 x 75,576 pixels
126" x 252" 300 PPI (10 ft. x 20 ft.) un-cropped image size.
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