Gigapixel Panorama: Manhattan Skyline, NYC | Zach Fox Photography

About This Project

You are looking at the Manhattan skyline as viewed from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City.

Tap here for the night version of this gigapixel panorama.

Gigapixel Metadata
Camera BodyCanon EOS R5
LensSigma EF150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C
Focal Length (Each)600mm
Aperture (Each)f/9
Shutter Speed (Each)1/320s
ISO (Each)100
# Images in Panorama249
Capture Time (1st Photo)2023-04-02 13:02:49 EDT
Capture Time (249th Photo)2023-04-02 13:15:00 EDT
Full Resolution93,210 x 31,774px = 2.96 Gigapixels

To create this image, I used the following tools:

  • PTGui Pro 12.21 for stitching the panorama
  • Photoshop to content-aware fill the transparent gaps in the sky in the final panorama (I don't know how to get PTGui to properly stitch images without control points)
  • ImageMagick to convert the .psb file from Photoshop into a PNG file (Photoshop can't export PNG files larger than 2GB; the one ImageMagick created was 3.91GB)
  • libvips to create the image pyramid from the full-resolution panorama
  • OpenSeadragon to create the above image viewer