An amazing gigapixel panorama of the inauguration that you can zoom in and control like it’s a google map.
(via Slog)
Update:
The blog post from the photographer who made this image:
I covered my first inauguration and what an inauguration it was.
Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States in a ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
Before Tuesday, I had photographed five presidents and covered big events including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and concerts like Live 8 and Live Earth.
But this one was the biggest.
It deserved a big photo.
I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama’s inaugural address. To do so, 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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22 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Now THAT is freaking awesome. At first I was like, so? Then I saw how close you can zoom in.
AMAZING!
Check the girl just below the president. She is cut in two and someone even took a picture of it!
I saw that girl too. (Stage left, close to Obama, in purple.) Why would she be edited?
There are a couple more “weird” spots.
1. The man right above the camera on the tripod (left, bottom of pic)
2. The left side of the building.
Is this a composite of multiple pics? I guess that would explain it.
Either way, still damn impressive. What’s the cost of that camera?
I FOUND WALDO! I FOUND WALDO!
Must find Easter Eggs.
Clarence Thomas is asleep
Bigfoot sighting. Building just right of center. On the roof. A whole family of them.
Has anyone seen a sniper with a RIFLE?
Maybe they built them into those cameras…
Not the remote cameras at the very top– the ones manned by the guys in the ski masks.
I suspect they did.
It’s a little elaborate, though…
Does that sound too crazy?
I don’t think so.
Cool hat on George the First
Super cool pic. I was surprised at how many different hats I saw. Call me a cynic, but I fugure the guy with the Green Bay Packers cap on woulda been used to the cold.
Happy New Year Chris,don’t remember if I said it before:)
lol … look how upset dubuyuh looks
It looks like W is checking his Blackberry
There are more CCTV cameras then there are TV broadcast cameras. Would have loved to see that command center. There’s even one aimed directly at this photographer. (Ten feet to the left of the base of the highest flag by the dome)
What the hell is that perched on top of the capitol building? From this angle it looks like a statue of some sort of dinosaur raptor bird.
Yeah there’s another blip on Aretha Franklin, half of the guy in front of her’s face is chopped off. And that same guy’s hat is floating in front of her face.
i have yet to find any nose-pickers. there are plenty of ninjas and headless zombies tho
Getting it to sound right was such a tough job they got a guy with three arms to help at the sound booth (he’s wearing a brown jacket, in the white tent behind the big camera tower).
@jerkstore – wow what a find! he reminds me of Goro or the twins from MIB (i count 4 arms btw, or at the very least 3.5)
With that hat, Cheney’s looking like a wheeled version of the frog-faced Major Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I think I found a skullhead.
Check the tent behind the photographer’s tower.
Just behind that is the man on a platform operating a “boom” camera.
Just above him, sitting behind a man in a green hat, is a skullhead.