ensuring that the camera did not miss one shot out of the 2,500 while it tried to focus. Inevitably there were a few frames that were missed, six in total, so these had to be manually replaced in post production." "Essentially this means you can zoom to see detail that you could never see with the human eye from the same spot." How many pictures did you take and how long did it take to stitch together? "I took 2,400 images over three and a half hours at St Paul's. It took me three weeks of trial and error and posting on forums to get the image stitched, including having to seriously pimp my computer. "The actual stitch itself took around two days of crunching, turning the computer in to a radiator." How do you plan to develop the GigaPan 360s? "I'm now looking for commissions to do more gigapixel panoramas - both outdoors and indoors. They can either be displayed online or printed as wallpaper and displayed on a huge scale, whole immersive rooms could be created. "Otherwise any venue or tourism location that has ceiling paintings or mosaics would be a great candidate." Did you need to manipulate the result at all, using HDR perhaps? "The result is as shot, no HDR. The missing photos mentioned above were all in the floor tiles so they were cloned back in Photoshop. Otherwise editing the shot was pretty much impossible due to it's size. Any time I tried to save