Photo Project: UW-Whitewater Campus

Posted by peteradmin on Jan 9, 2012 in featured, Photographs | 1 comment

Using a modern DSLR, you can get very sharp photos. Most cameras these days have sensors capable of producing 10 or more megapixels (thats millions of pixels) in each photo. If you wanted  a more detailed photo, you would either need to buy a camera that has a sensor with more pixels or a much cheaper option would be to take more than one photo and merge the photos together into one photo using photoshop. That is exactly what I did last week on the UW-Whitewater campus. The above photo is comprised of 8 photos at 15mm which allows for more than 180 degrees of view to be shown in one photo. In fact, the photo is  190 megapixels.

I took a another photo like the one above, however I used my 35mm prime lens so there would not be extreme barrel distortion. What I created from those 20 photos was a 245 megapixel photo and the only place for a photo that is larger than flickr can handle is gigapan. I managed to get all of the academic buildings in the photo, so click through to my gigapan and zoom in see if you spot something interesting!