Gigapixel Panorama: Mirador del Silenci | Zach Fox Photography

You are looking east from Mirador del Silenci , one of the most beautiful overlooks I've ever visited.

Gigapixel Metadata
# Images in Panorama106
Camera BodyCanon EOS R5
LensRF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM Z
Focal Length (Each)200mm
Aperture (Each)f/10
Shutter Speed (Each)1/400s
ISO (Each)400
Capture Time (first Photo)2025-11-10 15:56:43 CET
Capture Time (last Photo)2025-11-10 15:58:55 CET
Full Resolution1,000,495 by 14,743 px = 14.75 Gigapixels

To create this image, I used the following tools:

  • PTGui Pro 13.1 for stitching the panorama
  • Photoshop to content-aware fill a small area in the output panorama I missed while scanning
  • ImageMagick to convert the .psb file from Photoshop into a PNG file.
    • Photoshop can't export TIF files larger than 4GB, so I saved the edited image as a 8.19GB .psb, then converted that into a 2.58GB PNG
  • libvips to create the image pyramid from the full-resolution panorama:

    vips.exe dzsave pano.tif outfolder --tile-size 512 --suffix .avif[Q=69]

  • OpenSeadragon to create the above image viewer