The Big Shot helped the Buffalo Bills commemorate their farewell season in their current home of Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. The 52-year-old venue — home to countless core memories of generations of football fans — is in its final year of operational existence, with a new, neighboring stadium set to open in 2026.

The Big Shot, along with longtime sponsor Nikon, partnered with the Bills and CEPA Gallery to produce a once-in-a-lifetime photograph of the longtime home of the Bills Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025!

Read about the experience

Commemorative T-shirts

CEPA Gallery is offering a commemorative T-shirt for the event, with proceeds benefitting the local Buffalo, N.Y. gallery that is celebrating its 50th anniversary. T-shirts are available through the CEPA Gallery website.

Photo prints

Prints of the Highmark Stadium panorama, along with alternative view photos from the 300 section, are available!

Purchase Prints

A 360-degree view of the Buffalo Bills' Highmark Stadium.

Shot Specs:

Oct 11, 2025 | 8:45 p.m. 
Temperature: 51 degrees
Estimated crowd: approximately 6,500
Camera: 24 Nikon Z 9 camera bodies
Lenses: 24 matched NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 lenses
Exposure: 150 seconds @ƒ/11 ISO 100

24 images from 24 cameras made up the 360-degree photograph

Bills stadium lit up at night by thousands of flashlights.
An alternative view Big Shot of Highmark Stadium from the 300-section.
An alternative view Big Shot of Highmark Stadium from the 300-section.
A view of Highmark Stadium from the 300 section.
Big Shot volunteers paint with light.
Big Shot participants dressed up as Bills tailgaters.
Big Shot photographers smiling.
Kevin Lamark, Eric Kunsman, and Todd Jokl prepare the 360-degree camera rig.
President Bill Sanders and wife Emily with Todd Jokl, CAD dean.
Big Shot group photo in the tunnel of Highmark Stadium.
Big Shot founders panel.
Eric Kunsman checks the 360-degree camera rig.
A student looks into a camera lens.
Dan Hughes works with a student to assemble the 360 rig.
A student works to prepare the 360 rig.
Big Shot coordinators speak with the media.
A person operates a smoke machine inside a grill as part of a Big Shot prop.
Nanette Salvaggio gives marching orders on the field prior to the Big Shot.
Faculty Jim Porto looking jolly and smiling.
Football players stand as a smoke machine operates behind them.
Eric Kunsman and Michael Peres smile on the Highmark Stadium field.
Dean Todd Jokl gives remarks before the Big Shot.
Big Shot participants point a flashlight at Highmark Stadium seats.
A view of the Big Shot 360-degree camera rig from the 300 section.
Big Shot participants take a photo with their phone.
Two Big Shot participants smile in the stands.
Eric Kunsman adjusts the camera rig.
Big Shot volunteers paint with light in the stands.
Highmark Stadium all lit up at night. Photo by Rebecca Villagracia '26
Students walk out of the tunnel at Highmark Stadium. Photo by Rebecca Villagracia '26
A student takes a picture of Josh Allen's locker. Photo by Rebecca Villagracia
Students sit at a press conference table.
Students take photos of the Highmark Stadium field from the press box.
Students run on the Highmark Stadium field. Photo by Rebecca Villagracia '26
Dan Hughes and Eric Kunsman on the field at Highmark Stadium documenting tests for the Big Shot.
Dan Hughes and Eric Kunsman sit next to each other in Highmark Stadium seats.
Eric Kunsman moves rope on the ground to make a circle that mimics where the camera rig will stand during the Big Shot.

Our Biggest Event Yet

Flashlights illuminate Highmark Stadium.
Nikon logo.

The Big Shot would like to thank a longtime sponsor, Nikon, for providing flashlights to the first 6,000 volunteers who arrive at the event!