The World’s Largest Photo (Currently)

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March 22, 2010

In the wake of yesterday’s demoralizing — (how I wish that word were not quite so appropriate) — events, I, like Margaret, have sought for ways to distract myself from the draining aftermath of the health-care debate. And I find myself taking some comfort in the fact that we’ll always have Paris:

Harmonizing the 17 rows and the 138 columns of images was performed quite comfortably using groups of images in Camera Raw and synchronizing them. The slight remaining differences were processed directly during the stitching process by Autopano Giga. I am still amazed by the quality of the final harmonization, especially when you know that the first shot was taken at 11:30 am and the last one at 04:30 pm!

Actually navigating the enormous image is a bit confusing at first.  Those viewers subject to vertigo or motion sickness should probably stay away. (On a related note, is there any YouTube video that is not made better by the addition of some LOTR/Pirates of the Caribbean-style theme music? I submit that there is not!)

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  • Joseph Susanka has been doing development work for institutions of Catholic higher education since his graduation from Thomas Aquinas College in 1999. Currently residing in Lander, Wyoming -- "where Stetsons meet Birkenstocks" -- he is a columnist for Crisis Magazine and the Patheos Catholic portal.

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