So cool: 1474 mega pixel photo of Inauguration - zoom in and check it out!

[Coexist]

://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-...

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.

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.

Use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo. You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer.

the photographer has found Yo Yo Ma taking a picture with his Iphone!

Check it out, you'll love it.

(on edit: I found Rep. Conyers!)

[w8liftinglady]

1. that is really cool!

[patrice]

2. OMG! I do LOVE it! You can pan and zoom all over the place! nt

[October]

3. Amazing and scary....wow.

You can see GWB pursing his lips. Laura Bush looks like a Stepford Wife, and Justice Thomas looks like he's sleeping or something.

Very interesting.

[Muttocracy]

15. check out GHWBush in the giant fur hat next between Hillary and Barbara. nt

[greenbriar]

37. that is just what I was gonna post

what a dumbass fugly hat

[October]

39. I know! It's quite the HAT, isn't it!!! /nt

[kwyjibo]

4. The guy sitting in front of Aretha only has half a head....

and there's a floating hat next to him. Strange.

(They're a few rows behind Bush & Cheney, looking at Obama's back.)

[Richard D]

7. It's cause

It's a great many individual photos stuck together. There's bound to be some weirdness just because they are not all taken at exactly the same time.

[Muttocracy]

12. I zoomed in on someone with part of their hat floatin in front of their head

so it must have been a time lag between pictures and they moved and the software didn't know where to put the 2 colors of their hat

[Tesha]

61. Actually that is René Magritte.

[Muttocracy]

16. Hey - is that Rick Warren whose head was sliced in half?! and Colin P behind Aretha? nt

[conscious evolution]

5. Pretty amazing photo

[renate]

6. that's fantastic!

Thanks for finding this! Kudos to the photographer!

[annabanana]

8. Wow! Great picture..

Check out who gets cushie chairs & who are in folding metal ones...

[williesgirl]

9. Really great - thanks for posting. rec'd

[elocs]

10. Very cool. I bet this gets emailed to lots of people. I've already sent it to a couple. n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Cool. I noticed something about Bush & Biden

Bush, Joe Biden and the person to Cheney's left appear to be the only three sitting up front in what look like comfortable office chairs. Everyone else is sitting on a folding chair, with the exception, of course, of Darth who is sitting in a wheelchair, looking as ominous as he possibly can in that fucking hat and one more I spot up the aisle behind the ex-Vice President(The woman in white looking at the floor).

Who is the guy to Cheney's left with the nice chair? And did he get the nice chair only because Darth is in the wheelchair?

Interesting and fascinating photo.

[Muttocracy]

13. Senator Bennett (sp?) from Utah - GOP on the Inaug Committee? nt

[Bozita]

14. Found David Gregory above and to the right.

Fun pic! Thanks.

[Muttocracy]

17. Al and Tipper Gore across the aisle from Beau Biden and his wife , Jill Biden with grandson

on her lap... this is fun!

[Gabi Hayes]

62. did you notice who's on Tipper's left?

[Muttocracy]

18. are there Secret Service scattered throughout? I feel like I recognize a few

between the campaign and all the photos the last few days.

[Lucinda]

19. Very cool! Thanks for bringing it!

[alfredo]

20. You find Sean P Ditty whatever Combs? His So is in front of him. Also

found Waldo!! He's out of rehab. Again.

Aretha has two mouths, one is sporting a goatee.
Ron Lewis and Dennis Kucinich are there. So is a nice looking gal with a orange scarf and nice cheekbones.

That isn't Yo Yo Ma, that's his brother Hula Hoop Ma.

[Coexist]

22. LOL!

[Johnny Noshoes]

43. Hula Hoop Ma.

Damn you I can't stop laughing...

[alfredo]

50. Any relation to Shoeless John from NH?

[Johnny Noshoes]

51. Nah..

My sister lives in NH - but is originally from New York City. NH is nice to visit but TOO DAMN cold in the winter.

[alfredo]

52. That's what makes Shoeless John so special. When I met him, he was

living in the Sub Sahara. He wore shoes then.

[lolly]

56. If that's Hula Hoop

Then where's his sister Frisbee Ma? Didn't she get invited?

[alfredo]

60. Naw, she's got two kids, Lawn Dart, and Hungry Hungry Hippo, and

for security reasons, Lawn Dart can't attend, and Hungry Hungry Hippo is just plain annoying.

[robinlynne]

21. spectacular!!!!!!!

[bleever]

23. Scalia leaning on the railing, looking like the gangster that he is.

This is better than Where's Waldo.

[bleever]

24. Bob Gibbs is about ten feet

behind Yo-Yo Ma, on the upper tier.

[Bozita]

25. Found Teddy Kennedy ... without his hat.

A few rows up and a bit to the left of Obama. Teddy's red scarf is visible.

[OneGrassRoot]

26. What is U.S.H.E.?

This is awesome and allowed me to zoom in on those who seemed to be in some branch of the military, with armbands reading USHE.

I've googled it and just get Usher hits. LOL. Sorry if I'm being stupid; I know I'm ignorant, but I really hate to be stupid. I have no idea what that stands for.

[Coexist]

31. sorry I don't know

anyone?

[progressoid]

48. Um, I think it IS usher. Literally, an usher

NOUN: An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

[OneGrassRoot]

57. Oh, shit, you are kidding?! I never, ever saw an "R"....

Thanks!

[Fire1]

27. Really nice! Enjoyed it. Thanks

[bleever]

28. Where's Axelrod?

I found a dyspeptic Newt Gingrich; how'd he get past Secret Service?

[FourScore]

29. Really amazing!!! Thanks for this. k/r

[malaise]

30. Fabulous

Thanks

[Cetacea]

32. I can see Alaska from that photo.

Imagine what kind of imaging devices the various Intelligence agencies have.

[populistdriven]

33. Kucinich looks pleased nt

[Sabien]

34. is Clarence Thomas asleep?

figures...

[Bozita]

35. Fat Tony's got his back.

But from the front.

[progressoid]

49. Well, he works so hard ya know.

[Usrename]

53. What's up with Justice Alito? Is he in drag?

He's gettin his freak on.

[leeroysphitz]

36. That is very impresive. n/t

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

38. Very cool... Obama is in command,

* is smirking, and dick looks like the Shadow

[Catshrink]

40. Those people look so cold!

[fishwax]

41. wow

Thanks for posting that

[Stinky The Clown]

42. Who is the dead guy slumped down next to Newt?

Find the red curtain thru which Obama entered from the Capitol. From the center of the top of the arc it forms, imagine line straight down. Where it intersects the first left/right aisle, there sits Newt.

The dead guy is to Newt's right.

Who is that?

And very near Obama is a piece of shit. At least I thought it was. I was wrong. It was Fat Nino the Thug in his Commissar garb. Behind him is Clarence, lookin' all snooze and pretty pudgy hisownself.

[mt13]

45. not sure but i think Newt

is giving the death stare to the woman 2 people to his right, is she using her cell phone?

[mt13]

44. i just clicked the full screen link for the full effect.

I found Obama's Grandma and Kenyan family!

You can almost read the notes on the Marine bands music stands!

This is SOOOOO cool!!!!



edited my typo.

[Politicub]

46. Amazing photo - anyone notice Justice Clarence Thomas sleeping?

The supremes are seated right behind the podium where Obama is standing.

What a freaking weirdo Thomas is. How old is he? I wish he would retire so Obama could replace him. He's like a right-bot or something.

[Maru Kitteh]

47. I see Alan and Charlie's mom - Evelyn Harper! - - No, wiat,

That's Lynn Cheney.

[Enrique]

54. a hat freak's dream

ever see so many different hats in one place?

[lolly]

55. Where is Yo Yo?

I couldn't find him.

[Canuckistanian]

58. Is that Limbaugh between Shrub and Crashcart?

Man, the details are amazing.

[hiphopnation]

59. thanks so much for sharing, that is amazing. nt

[prayin4rain]

63. Wow! That's awesome! n/t