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Jasper Lake Panorama

This morning, I have created my largest panorama ever. It was taken on my vacation in Canada at Jasper Lake, only a few steps away from Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16). We stopped because there was an "Animal Jam", caused by a herd of Bighorn sheep. I crossed the highway and took some shots of the lake.

At the left hand side, you can see some bighorn sheep, but most of them were on the road or at the other side of the road. On the other lakeshore, just right of the center, you can see a freight train. That was one thing I did not take into consideration when I started taking the photos. I was not aware of it before the train blew the horns, I was so focussed on taking photos.

I had to resize the picture significantly to 3109 * 512 pixels, it was way too large for uploading to ipernity.The stitched photo was made of 12 handheld portrait oriented shots (JPEGs), camera was set to manual exposure. File size is 16509 * 2719 px (44 Megapixels), compessed TIFF file is approx. 170 MB.

Stitching was done with Hugin, GIMP was used for resizing, no post processing.