Monday, January 26, 2009

finding wally

American photographer David Bergman has created an astonishing 1474 megapixel photo of the Obama presidential inauguration. You can play with it, zoom in and pan around. Great piece of work.

And here's how he made it:

"I clamped a Gigapan Imager to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from my photo position. The Gigapan is a robotic camera mount that allows me to take multiple images and stitch them together, creating a massive image file.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes."

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