Extra Extra Large - _TNY_0971P2
Here's a bit of a special shot. For starters, the size. It's 11200x5875 pixels, ie 65.8 megapixel! But not only that, this also happen to be a species which I have been hoping to find for quite a while now. It's the caterpillar of the pale tussock moth (Calliteara pudibunda) and I think you have no problems figuring out why I wanted to find it. ;)
I came across this one while out at my mom's summer house packing up for winter and when my mom picked up a plastic water barrel to put it away - this one was there on the side of the barrel!
It wasn't interested in moving at all so I laid the barrel over my legs and began trying to get a good photo (my mom took a behind the scenes shot of me here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52421247963/). But that's when I realised I had a problem. I only brought the MP-E65mm lens as it is the best lens I own (in fact, best I know of) and I usually end up with that one on the camera anyways. The peculiar thing about the MP-E65mm however, is that it does 1:1 to 5:1 magnification. Minimum magnification is 1:1 (ie the typical max magnification of regular macro lenses) which means you can't capture things in frame which are larger than the width of the camera's sensor.
Now my Canon 5Ds has a fullframe sensor, ie it's 36x24 mm (1.41"x0.95") but including the fuzzy hairs, this caterpillar was well above 40 mm. It didn't fit in a shot straight from the side! As I was cursing myself for not bothering to bring the "regular" macro lens, I decided to try doing a panorama - and this is the result. I simply took two overlapping shots and fed them into Kolor Autopano Giga and it worked just as well as it does with landscape shots. And since this was made from two 50 megapixel shots, we end up with such a massive size - and I couldn't be more pleased.
As a bonus, the black plastic of the water barrel created this really cool reflection - it kind of looks like it produces its own light to be honest.
Extra Extra Large - _TNY_0971P2
Here's a bit of a special shot. For starters, the size. It's 11200x5875 pixels, ie 65.8 megapixel! But not only that, this also happen to be a species which I have been hoping to find for quite a while now. It's the caterpillar of the pale tussock moth (Calliteara pudibunda) and I think you have no problems figuring out why I wanted to find it. ;)
I came across this one while out at my mom's summer house packing up for winter and when my mom picked up a plastic water barrel to put it away - this one was there on the side of the barrel!
It wasn't interested in moving at all so I laid the barrel over my legs and began trying to get a good photo (my mom took a behind the scenes shot of me here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52421247963/). But that's when I realised I had a problem. I only brought the MP-E65mm lens as it is the best lens I own (in fact, best I know of) and I usually end up with that one on the camera anyways. The peculiar thing about the MP-E65mm however, is that it does 1:1 to 5:1 magnification. Minimum magnification is 1:1 (ie the typical max magnification of regular macro lenses) which means you can't capture things in frame which are larger than the width of the camera's sensor.
Now my Canon 5Ds has a fullframe sensor, ie it's 36x24 mm (1.41"x0.95") but including the fuzzy hairs, this caterpillar was well above 40 mm. It didn't fit in a shot straight from the side! As I was cursing myself for not bothering to bring the "regular" macro lens, I decided to try doing a panorama - and this is the result. I simply took two overlapping shots and fed them into Kolor Autopano Giga and it worked just as well as it does with landscape shots. And since this was made from two 50 megapixel shots, we end up with such a massive size - and I couldn't be more pleased.
As a bonus, the black plastic of the water barrel created this really cool reflection - it kind of looks like it produces its own light to be honest.