Patrick Norton tweeted this photo a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to share.  A photographer captured the best photo of an event I have ever seen.  The final result is actually a combination of photos stitched together to make a 1,474 megapixel 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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The photo doesn’t look like much until you start playing with the controls and zooming.  Those little ants of people zoom in until you can recognize all the celebrities.  Absolutely amazing.   It is like a real world Where’s Waldo.  Here’s a challenge…can you spot The Hat?

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