| Panorama of Vinales Valley, shot from a hotel veranda at the Hotel Los Jazzmines | |
| Resolution: 5605 x 843 | |
Another shot from yesterday: the view from my hotel balcony at the Hotel Los Jazzmines, a panorama stitched from 5 shots.
Scary fact: the TIF file generated by the stitching software was 148MB. That’s the downside of steadily growing image resolution 🙁 On the other hand, I’m still workingtowards my first gigapixel panorama 🙂
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