Maroon Bells, Fall Colors and Daisies
Maroon Lake, Aspen, Colorado
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Sept. 28, 2023. 9:15am. — On this particular morning, as I was walking along the north shore of Maroon Lake I couldn’t help but notice this patch of white daisies still blooming even though it was late September. I watched as several people took cell phone shots of the daisies with the Bells in background, a beautiful shot for sure. As I viewed the scene I realized that there was hardly a breath of wind so the flowers were nearly motionless, an essential requirement for doing a focus bracketed set of images. With such a beautiful scene I contemplated if I could pull off shooting a gigapixel wall mural of this beauty God had provided us on this glorious morning. Always up for a challenge to capture God’s creation in a gigapixel wall mural, I decided I would position my tripod about 3ft above the ground, some 6 ft from the daisies (which is as close as my 300mm lens will focus) and attempt to included them in a shot with them as the prominent foreground subject. Plus as a bonus, the lake was nearly a mirrored surface reflecting the yellow Aspens on the foot hills of the Bells. A couple pairs of ducks quietly fed along the shoreline as I was shooting. I spent the better part of 30 minutes shooting the set of images that went into creating this shot.
This is a focus stacked image shot with a Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens at f/11, 1/500th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 4818 images with the majority of the the images in the lower half of the image being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 132 individual Focus Stacked images, 6 rows x 22 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation.
The original image is:
- 2.85 Giga-pixels
- 37,788 x 75,576 pixels
- 126″ x 252″ 300 PPI (10 ft. x 20 ft.) un-cropped image size
- Available in 1:2 ratio (slightly cropped) from 10″ x 20″ to 48″ x 96 ” as Print, Standard Plaque, AlumiPress or PlexiPlaq.
- Wall Murals as large as 10 ft. x 20 ft. (300PPI). Call for price quote.
- Wall Murals as large as 20 ft. x 40 (150PPI). Call for price quote
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- Standard Plaque prints are available in four Finish Choices. Finishes are acid-free and ultra violet (UV) light protected, shielding it against fading and deterioration and can be wiped down with water or any ammonia-free cleaners.
- We highly recommend the Metalized Paper for prints, plaques and PlexiPlaq products. This special paper does an excellent job of bringing out the detail of the photos.
- All of our plaques are produced by Duraplaq on photo quality High Density boards. Numerous Mounting Styles are available along with many Edge Treatments.
- Approximate lead time for shipping of Prints is 1 week. Plaque mounts and other options 2 weeks.
The above sizes and mounting options are a small subset of the overall mounting options we have. We offer all of our photos on a variety of mounting options from just prints, framed, plaque mounting, Aluminum Prints, or Plexiplaq. We also offer Tri-Panel, Quad-Panel or Wall Clusters & Splits. Most of our Gigaramas are available as wall murals. We also license our photos for various commercial applications.