Gigapixel picture of the inaguration

[draggar]

Amazing picture:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullsc...648c2b4b06233c

From the photographer:
"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."

Just a warning - some of the "merging" isn't that great - Aretha Franklin has a goatee and a mystical hat floating in front of her.

The detail is amazing (and scary).

[Aethian]

For those of us who weren't there or couldn't watch it live...this is better then any book. Thanks for the find Draggar.

[the_std]

All I can think is...

Mega-expensive camera, mega-expensive software, obviously a professional dealing with both... And he still manages to catch Obama with his eyes closed.

[Nyoibo]

That is really cool though.

[lordlundar]

And he still manages to catch Obama with his eyes closed.

I thought he always looked like that.

[ShadedWings]

Wow this is neat! I'll probably spend the next hour zooming in to look at details.

I've already had a good look at the faces of the people on the balconies of the white house. (Probably Secret Service.)

[Mike Taylor]

That is a damned amazing feat of photography and computer imaging.