zoom in on a picture from Obama Inauguration

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Where's she sat? Can't find her...

Look; it's the invisible man!

Right... Yeah that's two separate images.

Probably took loads of them or more likely recorded it as a movie.. and the guy moved between frames..?

Interesting the level of technology to get such high definition, but not exactly surprising is it?

 

[Greiver]

Was Denzel Washington and Whoopie Goldberg there!?
Practically center of the pic, below the podium, at the bottom of the stairs to the left. Look for a brown coat which is noticable from a distance as well!

 

[goat boy]

http://www.gigapansystems.com/mm5/m...Code=GS&Product_Code=I-E100&Category_Code=GPI

Clever stuff

I'd be suprised if Google Maps Street View doesn't use a similar technology- it 'looks' similar, and the stitching process is the same

 

[MCFCinUSA]

fascinating - but I think one of the shots, the Boston one on their website looks a little bit like it's been doctored (not taking away from the technology - but some of the people in it don't seem real).

I have to concur with the 'doctored' theory. Not sure why, but when zooming(no pun intended! Great song, though!) into Aretha Franklin, there's a guy whose face in cut in half, in order to allow Franklin(and her poor choice of hat!) to be seen!

Probably cut off because the whole image is made up of smaller frames put together into a montage...?

I'm not talking about that stuff, which is obviously caused by the movement of the camera and the movement of the people in between shots.

Take a look at the image below (a panoramic of BOSTON) and the people on the tops of some of the buildings - they look like bad photoshops to me:-

<a class="postlink" href="http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2934&window_height=646&window_width=929" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2 ... _width=929</a>

 

[Bigga]

fascinating - but I think one of the shots, the Boston one on their website looks a little bit like it's been doctored (not taking away from the technology - but some of the people in it don't seem real).

I have to concur with the 'doctored' theory. Not sure why, but when zooming(no pun intended! Great song, though!) into Aretha Franklin, there's a guy whose face in cut in half, in order to allow Franklin(and her poor choice of hat!) to be seen!

Probably cut off because the whole image is made up of smaller frames put together into a montage...?

I'm not talking about that stuff, which is obviously caused by the movement of the camera and the movement of the people in between shots.

Take a look at the image below (a panoramic of BOSTON) and the people on the tops of some of the buildings - they look like bad photoshops to me:-

<a class="postlink" href="http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2934&window_height=646&window_width=929" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2 ... _width=929</a>

Yes, definitely 'fitted' together and probably used something like Vector to sharpen the edges of joined images.