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Re: 2009 Gigapan of Finals

Here is a quick stitching of one of the Gigapans that I shot from the back of Einstein during the competition finals.


(click on the image to link to the full Gigapan)


There is a lot of work still to be done with this image to pull out some of the blurred people and replace them with the clean sections of overlap areas, and balance out the colors. But this is a good first indication of what the final image will look like.

The image has small sections of significant blurring where people were moving rapidly while the sub-images were being acquired. Due to the uneven light coverage inside the Georgia Dome, I was shooting with a 1/8-second shutter speed (Canon G-10 at f4.5, full optical zoom, no digital zoom). This was slow enough to catch considerable movement in each frame. I shot the panorama four times, and have enough duplicate frames to clean up the blurred areas with a little bit of work.

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