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Gigapan Imager Used to Craft 1,474 Mpg Image of Inauguration
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by Blue Crush | January 25, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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Do you know anyone that was at Tuesday's presidential inauguration? Now you can go find them in the crowd!
David Bergman tells us on his blog how he made a 1,474 megapixel panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama's inaugural address by using a Gigapan Imager. He says it took the Gigapan software more than six and a half hours to stitch the scene together on a MacBook Pro and the final TIF file was almost 2 GB in size.
Wow. 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.
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at 02:09 on January 26th, 2009
Making a God like figure out of some one that has not yet achieved any thing nor proven him self either is rather worrisome and dangerous.
at 08:26 on January 26th, 2009
This picture is absolutely amazing. Thanks for reporting on this and providing the link.
at 21:10 on January 27th, 2009
It's really amazing. Thanks Blue Crush for this story.