Vertical panorama

Just before my frog and reptile workshop in St. Louis began last weekend, I visited the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica. In my opinion it is the most beautiful cathedral in America, and it rivals many of the great cathedrals in Europe for artistic splendor. This picture is an 8-frame vertical panorama composite in which I assembled 8 different shots, each one overlapping the previous one by approximately 50%. I used a 14mm Sigma f/1.8 wide angle. My settings were 1/40, f/2.8, and 2000 ISO, and I took this with my new Canon R5. In stitching the pictures together, I re-saved the frames as jpeg images to reduce the processing time. At first I tried to stitch the original hi res Photoshop files (each one being 128 megs), but Photoshop crashed twice. The amount of data crunching was apparently too much even with 32 megs of RAM in my Mac computer. Jpeg files of 68 megs each were no problem. Click on the image to see the entire picture area.