Fort Hays State University > FHSU from the Big Creek Levee, Evening, Early Spring 2009 by Ron Schott

It seems that I've gone over a month now without uploading a new GigaPan - remarkable, anyhow in light of the torrid pace I've kept up for most of the last year and a half. Well, the weather is improving and it's time to make an assault on the 300 cumulative gigapixel barrier, so here we go...

This shot is another from the FHSU campus, shot in the same general area and same direction as www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4649 , but from a little further back. Rather than upload the initial Stitcher output with all its flaws, I decided to take the time clean this one up in Photoshop. It turned out to take me almost three times as long to straighten up that lightpole in the center of the image as it took to shoot the image in the first place. Was it worth the effort? Yes, for the practice and experience working with Photoshop, but probably not for the modest aesthetic improvement it adds to the image as a whole. Scott Telstad's screencast (www.screencast.com/t/FecO3zrZm2 ) about removing movement artifacts was instrumental in guiding my editing - I highly recommend it. I wish I could put revised metadata (Stitcher Notes) into this file upon upload - consider that a feature request for future releases of the GigaPan Uploader software.