By:Paul Heckbert (paulheckbert) on July 4, 2009
Tags: fireworks , night , pittsburgh

We shot this from Mt. Washington, looking down at The Point (where the Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers join to form the Ohio), from which the fireworks were launched. Our panorama includes glimpses of the crowds at The Point and in the Northside (near the stadiums).

We shot two panoramas in quick succession and chose selected images from each set to put this mosaic together. Including the crowd around us in the picture turned out to be a good decision, I think.

Photography: Randy Sargent.
Image composition and gigapan lugging: Paul Heckbert.
Stitcher supervision: Goutham Mani.
Mask photo editing: Mary Jo Knelly.

Stitching notes:

GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3865 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 391 megapixels (39080 x 10006 pixels)
Input images: 52 (13 columns by 4 rows)
Field of view: 113.0 degrees wide by 28.9 degrees high (top=11.1, bottom=-17.8)
Settings:
Use larger blending region
Keep projected images
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon PowerShot G10
Image size: 4416x3312 (14.6 megapixels)
Capture time: 2009-07-04 21:35:22 - 2009-07-04 21:51:29
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure time: 0.8
ISO: 400
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 142.3 mm
Digital zoom: off
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Manual
Horizontal overlap: 34.0 to 39.0 percent
Vertical overlap: 32.2 to 32.9 percent
Computer stats: 12288 MB RAM, 8 CPUs
Total time 46:23 (0:53 per picture)
Alignment: 1:42, Projection: 3:35, Blending: 41:05

Date Taken: July 4, 2009
Date Added: July 27, 2009
Bookmarked: 2 times
Total Views: 1860 views
Snapshots: 16
Size: 0.39 gigapixels
Field of View: 122.0 degrees wide, 31.2 degrees high