East Point, Prince Edward Island, Summer 2008.
You get to see about 300 degrees of ocean on this lick of peninsula, with cliffs all around. Give me a place with some rocky cliffs and I’m a happy guy.
I took 11 photos, and the panoramic image is the result of merging 8 of them using Photoshop’s Automate -> Photomerge. The image size was 13722 x 2104 (the version here is reduced for sanity) and the PSD file was 182 MB. I’m impressed that so much detail can be retained in a 621 KB jpeg.
A closer look at part of the image:
[Addendum: 3/14/09]
Photoshop and Canon PhotoStitch both choke when I try to merge all 11 photos together, and I can’t blame them. Some of the last few images are purely sea and sky, with nothing in the way of reference points; the waves change too quickly.
But after seeing a good word about Autopano Pro from Gigapan (which has awesome panoramas on display), I gave it another shot.
I was very impressed with the result.
The downside is that the trial version of Autopano creates a watermark on the image. But it’s still nice to see the panorama as it was envisioned.