Description
Vancouver 12-Gigapixels is a 240° East-to-Northwest view of Vancouver, BC Canada taken from the Living Shangri-la Vancouver skyscraper, the tallest building in the city.
The image is a composite of 1608 individual photos taken on April 10 and May 8, 2010 between the hours 11:30am – 3:30pm using a GigaPan EPIC 100, Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM.
In print form, the image is 96.4 m x 16.0 m. Roughly, its width is the length of a football field with a height 5 stories high.
Technical Details
- Dimensions: 273,298 × 45,474 pixels
- Pixels: 12,427,953,252
- No. of images: 1,608 @ 18 MP/image
- Size: 34GB (Photoshop PSB format)
- Shooting: 210 mins
- Stitching: 3 weeks
- Rendering: 3 hrs 45 mins *
- Public Availability: June 4 2010
* On an 8-Core Apple Mac Pro (2 x 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor), 18GB RAM, 2TB HD, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3
The entire image was created solely by Ronnie Miranda as a personal project. He was neither sponsored nor commissioned by any company or individual.
Special Thanks to:
Shangri-la Hotel Vancouver
Ed Brea, General Manager
Jeff Froehlich, Director of Sales & Marketing
Eleanor Mah, Senior Sales Manager
Ryan Fowler, Security
Sureena Parmar, Concierge
Ms. Maggie Wang
