Gigapixel Panorama: Manhattan Skyline, NYC at Midnight | Zach Fox Photography

About This Project

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

Tap here for the daytime 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/6.3
Shutter Speed (Each)1s
ISO (Each)100
# Images in Panorama145
Capture Time (1st Photo)2023-04-03 00:23:31 EDT
Capture Time (249th Photo)2023-04-03 00:38:37 EDT
Full Resolution91,399 x 30,988px = 2.83 Gigapixels

To create this image, I used the following tools:

  • PTGui Pro 12.21 for stitching the panorama
  • Photoshop to 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