Great North Woods-Re-Post

A recent project came my way which required tree and waterfall images that were in a square-ish format that could be enlarged to 30 ft. x 30 ft. prints @ 150 dpi.  Unfortunately, my single images did not hold up to that kind of enlargement.  This fall I shot with these type of comps in the back of my mind should the right comp and conditions present themselves.  This is one of the images that came of that quest. This image was the result of  6 x 6 individual images, each focus stacked, to create the final square panorama.  The trees could not be shot facing them squarely, so I focus stacked to keep everything sharp using a 150mm zoom which naturally has a reduced DOF.  I did crop the left side for presentation here, as I thought it tightened up the comp.  Even lighting a relatively calm conditions helped me pull this off.  There was enough minor movement between images that some cleanup was required after the rows were stitched.  The final file size came to 2.5 gigs.

Nikon D810, 80-400, polarizing filter f16, 36 images stitched (6x6)