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Re: New World Record - 26 Gigapixels Photo?
jrgen_schrader 2009-Dec-18 18:44:13
To me this is a complete waste.
Bad viewpoint, bad lighting, bad sharpness, bad framing.
But they seem to have a sponsor, probably Dr. Clauss who builds the Rodeon heads: http://www.dr-clauss.de/AFBmediaGmbH_DE.htmProbably
I wouldn't want to shoot such a picture even for money, though ...
I'd rather like the one from Jeffrey, even with the drunk buildings, hehe.
Jürgen
--- In #removed#, "Carlos Chegado - www.carloschegado.com" <carloschegado@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, I agree too, that's why I asked: is it worthed?
>
> Most of the Gigapixel images I see are technical achievements without
> artistic merit whatsoever!
>
> I am still waiting for a world record that breaks ground artistically
> and technically!
>
> Os melhores cumprimentos,
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> On 18-12-2009 16:43, AYRTON wrote:
> >
> > 2009/12/18 Bjørn K Nilssen <bk@... <mailto:bk%40bknilssen.no>>
> >
> > > IMO it's a quite boring image where less than 10% of it contains any
> > > interesting info,
> > > unless one is very interested in grass, roof tiles, empty windows and
> > > streets etc.
> > >
> >
> > I completely agree !
> > Why spend so much work and hourssss to look at ... nothing special :-)
> > IF there was something really happening there, but
> >
> > AYRTON
> >
> > Like most Gigapixel images I've looked at this one also looks like they've
> > > been cheating
> > > by blowing it up to 400%, because it is surprisingly soft,
> > particularly in
> > > the few
> > > interesting areas in the background.
> > > I think the only Gigapixel image I really enjoyed was one from Machu
> > > Picchu.
> > > But hopefully this new world record will stand for a while, so that more
> > > focus will be
> > > put on content than size?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bjørn K Nilssen - http://bknilssen.no <http://bknilssen.no> -
> > panoramas and 3D
> > >
> >
>
>
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