Exhibitions

Mauna Kea 12,000ft

Mauna Kea 12,000ft


Tak­en from a North East­ern cross view of the crater dur­ing sun­rise the col­ors are deep and rich in the rock sand and new plant growth.

Kamoal­i’i (The chiefly stones) Pu’u o Pele (Hill of Pele) and Ka Lu’u o ka ‘O’o (Plunge of the dig­ging stick) cin­der cones are vis­i­ble below.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM
Focal Length: 31.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/500 @ f‑11.0
ISO: 640

# of frames: 12

Era: Sept 2011



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Post­ed: July 7, 2021 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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The Bamboo Cathedral

The Bamboo Cathedral


On the hike to Waimoku falls in Haleakala Nation­al Park you cross through a bam­boo for­est that tow­ers over you.  In places the bam­boo is so tall and dense that its extreme­ly dark on the path, how­ev­er occa­sion­al­ly rays of the Sun slip through the tall canopy and shine through.

This por­tion of the path, it height of the bam­boo reminds me of a grand cathe­dral of Europe.


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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Mount Yamnuska

Mount Yamnuska


Mount Yam­nus­ka dur­ing the fall and sim­ply one of my favorite photographs.

I have hiked this moun­tain from every side in all weath­er dur­ing the year and it is sim­ply a stun­ning trek with spec­tac­u­lar views.

The fall brings the rich­est col­ors to the moun­tain and its sur­round­ings, how­ev­er late spring/early sum­mer brings some of the most invig­o­rat­ing fresh air as the remain­ing snow at the high­er ele­va­tions cools the sur­round­ing ground and the updrafts from the val­ley below rush past you.


This is the first com­pos­ite panora­ma image I ever stitched.

At the time, I had a rel­a­tive­ly mod­ern and fast Pen­tium 4, and with pan­otools I was able to com­bine all the images with just under 80 hours of ren­der time (each pass, result­ing in near­ly 2 weeks’ worth of work to com­plete the over­all photo).

As a test in ear­ly 2022, I stitched this same image on my mod­ern Thread­rip­per, and the images were com­bined (with con­sid­er­ably more mod­ern stitch­ing tools) in just under 1 minute, and 23 sec­onds.  The dif­fer­ence that a decade in com­put­ing pow­er is astound­ing, albeit not surprising.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Lens: Sig­ma 150/2.8
Focal Length: 150.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/500 @ f‑11.0
ISO: 400

# of frames: 46

Era: Sept 2005



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Haines Alaska

Haines Alaska


An amaz­ing morn­ing in the fog with just the right amount of sun peak­ing through.

Tak­en from the deck of a cruise ship trav­el­ing through the fog between the islands was an amaz­ing experience

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Focal Length: 130.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/2500 @ f‑10.0
ISO: 400

# of frames: 14

Era: August 2009



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Morant’s Curve

Morant’s Curve


A famous sec­tion of the Cana­di­an Pacif­ic Rail­way locat­ed in the Bow Val­ley Park­way between Banff and Lake Louise Alberta.

Tak­en on a par­tic­u­lar­ly frosty morn­ing the ambi­ent tem­per­a­ture was ‑36C before wind chill; despite this the Giga­pan Epic Pro func­tioned beautifully.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: Canon EF135mm f/2L USM
Focal Length: 135.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/1000 @ f‑9.0
ISO: 400

# of frames: 71

Era: Feb 2011



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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London — Oxford Circus

London — Oxford Circus


Janelle stand­ing in the mid­dle of rush-hour traf­fic in Oxford Cir­cus London.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Lens: Sig­ma 15/2.8 Fisheye
Focal Length: 15.0 mm
ISO: 400
Shut­ter Speed: 1/400 @ f‑8.0

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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Decem­ber 8, 2022
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Mount Rundle

Mount Rundle


Mt. Run­dle is an icon­ic moun­tain locat­ed in Banff Nation­al Park Alber­ta Canada.

This moun­tain cer­tain­ly has it’s moods depend­ing on the time of year weath­er sunrise/sunset and so on.

Pho­to tak­en from the west end of the Ver­mil­ion lakes in late fall.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF400mm f/2.8L IS USM + EF 2X TC

Focal Length: 800.0 mm

ISO: 640

Shut­ter Speed: 1/1250 @ f‑5.6

# of Frames: 32



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Saint Andrews Ruins Hard Light

Saint Andrews Ruins Hard Light


Some of the ruins at Saint Andrews.

A spec­tac­u­lar sight when the weath­er is just right.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 320

Shut­ter Speed: 1/1250 @ f‑5.6

# of Frames: 56



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Sep­tem­ber 24, 2021
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Haleakala Crater Sunrise

Haleakala Crater Sunrise


This image was tak­en from a North East­ern cross view of the crater dur­ing sun­rise, the colours are deep and rich in the rock sand and new plant growth.

Kamoal­i’i (The chiefly stones) Pu’u o Pele (Hill of Pele) and Ka Lu’u o ka ‘O’o (Plunge of the dig­ging stick) cin­der cones are vis­i­ble below.

Haleakala is one of my favourite places in the world, it has many spe­cial qual­i­ties about it, and it nev­er dis­ap­points in any weath­er or any time of the day.  To tru­ly enjoy this part of Hawai’i, one must vis­it the Nation­al park from mid­night to mid­night as ever-chang­ing light­ing con­di­tions reward you with spec­tac­u­lar views.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Focal Length: 70.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/160 @ f‑10.0
ISO: 400

# of Frames: 5

Era: Sept 2011



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Kahului Rainbow

Kahului Rainbow


Look­ing down on the val­ley in Maui from the 9000 ft mark on Haleakala.

A rain­bow shines over Kahu­lui, Maui.  Maui remains an amaz­ing place with many of the worlds cli­mat­ic zones avail­able on the island with­in a rel­a­tive­ly short distance.

The trade winds and the loca­tion in the Pacif­ic give it an amaz­ing­ly tem­per­ate cli­mate where it can rain and be sun­ny on you at the same time.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 400

Shut­ter Speed: 1/640 @ f‑13.0

# of frames:



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Quantums of Light

Large Format Imaging, how large is large?

Large Format Imaging, how large is large?


Orig­i­nal­ly Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020
Updat­ed: July 25, 2022


Introduction

When I talk about ‘large for­mat’ imag­ing, I get numer­ous ques­tions about:

  • How Large is Large?

That prompt­ed me to write this post.

Let’s start by look­ing at three exam­ples pre­sentable via the web; all images range in the 250–600 Megapix­el size (I do have pic­tures that are 1–4 Gigapix­els in size; how­ev­er, these exam­ples are more aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleasing).

I include the com­plete image and slices of the image at 100% zoom to demon­strate the res­o­lu­tion of these large-for­mat photographs.

Haleakala Crater



This image is still a work in progress; how­ev­er it illus­trates the size of the picture.

The first image is the pho­to­graph zoomed all the way out to see the entire scene.

Image Details:

  • 66 frames over 3 rows
  • Stitched size of 34,111 x 13,494 pix­els or 460 Megapixels
  • Large enough that print­ing with a stan­dard out­put of 300DPI, the print will mea­sure 113 x 45 inch­es (big enough to print an awe­some print on my Epson 9900).

The 2nd image (big yel­low box) is a sam­ple of the image at 50% zoom.



This image is still a work in progress; how­ev­er it illus­trates the size of the image.  The first image is the pho­to­graph zoomed all the way out to see the entire scene.

Image Details:

  • 66 frames over 3 rows
  • Stitched size of 34,111 x 13,494 pix­els or 460 Megapixels
  • Large enough that print­ing with a com­mon out­put of 300DPI, the print will mea­sure 113 x 45 inch­es (big enough to print an awe­some print on my Epson 9900).

The 2nd image (big yel­low box) is a sam­ple of the image at 50% zoom.

The final 2 images are 1:1 (100%) zooms of the source file.

Notice the ful­ly bloom­ing Sil­ver­Sword in the 1st image? and the hik­ers tak­ing a break in the 2nd image?

When I print­ed this image orig­i­nal­ly on a 24 inch Epson the print was 24 x 60 inch­es @ 570DPI source out­put and I had to lit­er­al­ly place my face sev­er­al inch­es from the sur­face to see the hik­ers and the SilverSword.

Click on the images to see them larg­er in the light­box.  Due to com­pres­sion for the web­site, they are not as sharp as the soure images, how­ev­er they con­vey the details in mas­ter image.

The Beehive — Winter


As with many of my large for­mat images, the Bee­hive in Win­ter is high res­o­lu­tion enough that it yield­ed sev­er­al sur­pris­es when I was view­ing it at full res­o­lu­tion for the first time.

The full width image.



Now, the obser­va­tion hut at the top of the mountain.

I have hiked to this hut numer­ous times, and the view from the top of the moun­tain is spectacular.

That said, I was hon­est­ly sur­prised when I saw it in this par­tic­u­lar image as I would nev­er have imag­ined that I would cap­ture enough detail to resolve peo­ple stand­ing in the hut (assum­ing they were there on this cold and snowy day).

Canadian Pond Hockey


Final­ly the best exam­ple is one of my favorites.

Cana­di­an Pond Hock­ey is a high res­o­lu­tion large for­mat image tak­en with my Gigapan.

As with the oth­er exam­ples, the clar­i­ty of this image when print­ed at 44 x 110 inch­es even with your face almost touch­ing the print is sim­ply amaz­ing, some­thing that can­not be tru­ly real­ized on the web.

Full width image.

A sam­ple of full 1:1 crops com­pared against the full width image.


Conclusion


I hope this post helps demon­strate the over­all res­o­lu­tion of these large-for­mat images and aids in answer­ing how large is large.

I can state with fact that hav­ing print­ed many of these images in 24 x 65 inch­es and 44 x 110+ inch­es fine art prints, the web­site can­not do jus­tice to the high res­o­lu­tion that the source images cap­ture.  That said, it is impor­tant for me to note that I pur­sue high-res­o­lu­tion pho­tog­ra­phy from a fine art point of view and not from a “tech­ni­cal arms race” to make the high-res­o­lu­tion image pos­si­ble for high-res­o­lu­tion sake.

I may be a geek at heart, how­ev­er, it is the artist in me that takes over when I chase these high-res­o­lu­tion images.


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