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A Picture Worth Two-Million Words
An amazing bit of technology was used to capture a most amazing event. Gigapan has an unbelievable photograph of President Barack Obama's
Inaugural Address.
It was taken by David Bergman using a 1,474 megapixel.robotic camera (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera). It consists of 200 individual shots. You can pan and zoom around the picture like a satellite map.
Check out Dick Cheney looking like the Scrooge-esque banker, Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life." Is Justice Clarance Thomas sleeping? Find Yo-Yo Ma taking a picture with his iPhone. See any friends in the crowd?
Have patience, a zoom may take a second to focus.
Enjoy.
Full-screen version
It was taken by David Bergman using a 1,474 megapixel.robotic camera (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera). It consists of 200 individual shots. You can pan and zoom around the picture like a satellite map.
Check out Dick Cheney looking like the Scrooge-esque banker, Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life." Is Justice Clarance Thomas sleeping? Find Yo-Yo Ma taking a picture with his iPhone. See any friends in the crowd?
Have patience, a zoom may take a second to focus.
Enjoy.
Full-screen version
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Really great picture Steve. It is just amazing to me how Quinn and Bwakfat and others just grab all sorts of different media to make a point and it ends up as one red word!!!
February 2, 2009 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amazing!!!
February 2, 2009 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good stuff, thanks Steve.
The blending of images looks pretty precise, but it did create a few interesting images. Check out the wig on the lady sitting behind Rahm. About the 12th row directly behind the Prez.
February 2, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's a guy behind Thomas who's head isn't on straight. Three out of 2 million, so far, ain't bad. I love looking at the crowd's faces. It's like being there. Be cool if the site played his speech while you pan and zoom.
February 2, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's Waldo!
Thanks Steve.
February 2, 2009 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's sitting cross-legged on the ground between the official camera tower in the center of the crowd, and the white sound-booth tent directly behind it.
February 3, 2009 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow!
February 2, 2009 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
The shame of it is is there are about 2 million people wearing ski masks in that pic. That might be someone I know way in the back but I can't tell.
February 2, 2009 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remarkable photograph Steve. Zoom in on Laura Bush, pan up about 3-4 rows at 10 O'clock from Laura. There's an interesting digital 'anomaly' on the guy's head(s).
February 2, 2009 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like it's Blagojevich's hair. Or, that's no 'anomaly,' that's his wife.
February 2, 2009 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
That sounds like a sexism, i am not saying you are a sexism. It just sounds like a sexism.
February 2, 2009 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not sexism but an exorcism caught on a microchip.
February 2, 2009 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
You could see tents setup on the roofs of the building that make up the left border of the mall.
February 2, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was awesome! Thanks for showing to us...
February 2, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clarence Thomas is asleep!!! The first African-American President is inaugurated and Thomas is two sheets to the wind.
February 3, 2009 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm changing my thought on Dick Cheney, in closeup the hat makes him appear more like, Judge Doom in "Roger Rabbit." Pass "The Dip."
February 3, 2009 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink