Jan 25 2009Eye Candy: A 1,474 Megapixel Inauguration Photo With Sweet Zoom-In Capabilities

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Oh man, you can actually zoom in on faces in the audience and see the snot dripping.

But what you're looking at is not a single image. The photo, which was shot using a Canon G10 and Gigapan Imager, is comprised of over 200 different shots that were then combined over the course of six hours using Gigapan software. The final product has a resolution of 1,474 megapixels and a TIF file size of almost 2 gigabytes

Pretty freaking awesome. So go HERE to explore the image for yourself. It's fun, I spent the better part of five minutes celebrity-hunting in the audience. Thought I spotted Oprah, but it was just some no-name with a turkey drumstick.

Fullscreen Inauguration Gigapan Viewer
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Panaramic Inaugural Photo [ign]

Thanks to Matt and Hanes, who were both invited to the inauguration but fell in the reflecting pool and had to go home and change clothes, missing it.

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1. Russell W - January 25, 2009 6:20 PM

Of course Clarence Thomas is f'ing asleep! Why, oh why was that man ever put on the bench?

2. me - January 25, 2009 6:20 PM

first

3. Hunter - January 25, 2009 6:41 PM

Oh hot damn, that's some mighty fine zoomin!

4. jigga - January 25, 2009 6:43 PM

if you look carefully, there's a guy to the right of obama near the stair case/lamp post with something floating over his head. it looks like a hand of some sort.

5. Ear Necklace - January 25, 2009 6:45 PM

Wow. I just found myself! Can you find me? I'm the white guy wearing the red ski jacket. I'm sitting next to the black guy. The one with a hat on. Did you find me yet? Keep looking. My hand is near my nose but I wasn't picking it. I was just scratching it because I had an itch.

6. Tim - January 25, 2009 6:46 PM

Something crazy going on with Aretha Franklin, too. The guy in front of her appears to have recently had his head removed (the hat stays, though)!

7. Oliver - January 25, 2009 6:46 PM

too bad the site is about as fast as a mix between a mentally challenged snail and the choice menu of a paid 'information' number..

8. jigga - January 25, 2009 6:49 PM

lol ppl cutoff near the cameras

9. Toni - January 25, 2009 6:51 PM

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j121/omgninja/Blog%20Shit/likewhofarted.png

I swear it looks like someone let one rip here. I blame the guy in the middle.

10. Ear Necklace - January 25, 2009 6:58 PM

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! When did we get a black president?

11. DDS - January 25, 2009 7:36 PM

So many cameras, half of them not even being used....

12. Gavern - January 25, 2009 7:47 PM

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/gavern/georgeandjohnlookimpressed.jpg

Bush and McCain look exicted

13. Beastman AIDS - January 25, 2009 7:47 PM

haha It kinda looks like Bush is playing on a cell phone.

14. jimmothy - January 25, 2009 7:57 PM

@12&13

That's not McCain...

15. Beastman AIDS - January 25, 2009 7:59 PM

There's a man with half his head missing - he's on the same level as all the ex presidents/families are sitting. He's standing against the white wall of the steps towards where the photo is taken from and he's with about 3 other guys just standing around. There's a lamp post beside him too.
Can you find thalidomide baby waldo?

16. hugegirl - January 25, 2009 8:14 PM

Can you find Waldo??
http://bluesparkspokane.com/waldo.JPG

17. Thumperchica - January 25, 2009 8:29 PM

And I'm sure our government had NO USE WHATSOEVER for their facial recognition software at this event... dodododododo

18. Nathan Burgun - January 25, 2009 8:59 PM

there's quite a few instances where there's pixel separations, where i believe that images were pasted together in chunks. People's faces floating around, not contected to their head (just look at all the people sitting just to the upper left of Obama. Also down to the lower left of Obama is a lamp post on the corner of the balcony, and if you see the men standing just to the lower left of THAT, 2 of them is actually the same man, one of which has the top of his head cut off...he must have moved after 2 sections of the picture were taken.

19. Brayden - January 25, 2009 9:26 PM

67 clicks down and 5 to the left. zoom straight in and you will find that the ninjas are watching us...

20. brayden - January 25, 2009 9:27 PM

strike that, zoom in first.

21. steven - January 25, 2009 9:32 PM

Can you find the Ghost Man with his only his legs walking around?

22. hugegirl - January 25, 2009 9:50 PM

I swear I saw kanye west and snoop dogg. On last thing why does every old black lady at this event have some crazy hat on.

23. Daisy (TRO) - January 25, 2009 9:52 PM

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max let his friends use his brothers car to go out drinking. They really messed it up, and came up with the plan to report it stolen.

24. hawlee - January 25, 2009 10:25 PM

found denzel!

25. Mayo - January 26, 2009 1:54 AM

That is pretty f'n amazing.

26. sushi - January 26, 2009 2:29 AM

Obama is BLACK?????? WTF!!!!!

#9 youre right!!! LOL!

27. Rip - January 26, 2009 4:39 AM

...and where can I a scarf like this?

http://img.skitch.com/20090126-x5gsqusgcxf4it18ctqqfmawdj.jpg

28. softlicious - January 26, 2009 5:40 AM

@10 - Never! Obama is not the president because he didn't get the oath right:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/23/barack-obama-oath-inauguration
"he had no bible with him at the re-run" Without the bible the oath isn't valid, and someone might contest it in the supreme court. OMG! I hope Obama's secret agents don't find out about my real identity.

29. wukatang - January 26, 2009 5:43 AM

shigity shigity schwa this is awesomw he is so cool
wen i first heard he was running (not aware of wat he looks like) i thought that some terrorist was running lool

30. Anita Bath - January 26, 2009 7:46 AM

Glad to see Osama was able to take some time out of his busy schedule to attend the ceremony:
http://bluesparkspokane.com/waldo.JPG

31. anon - January 26, 2009 8:01 AM

Found Denzel and P. Diddy standing center row, ground level behind the band.

32. Right Fury - January 26, 2009 10:20 AM

Yuck. liberals in high res are just as smug as they are in person.

33. softlicious - January 26, 2009 10:38 AM

Fake!

Obama is a FAKE! No shadows tells me that he's a Democ...
http://www.icpetportraits.com/wildlife/black_rat_large.jpg

This is just like in that country Never Think Right in which there was universal health care. But a commodity that costs something to produce but nothing to obtain is scarce, so when Tom got braincancer it took him 8 months to get surgery. The surgeon wasn't able to remove all the cancer, Tom was given another free brain surgery, just for good measure so that the system would look good. Needless to say, Tom died and proved that Never Think Right is a stupid country. Tom, sorry for exploiting your death in a political purpose. You didn't die for nothing, you became a Geekologie punch line!

34. Peanut Colada - January 26, 2009 1:12 PM

I FOUND SLOTH FROM THE GOONIES!

5 guys behind obama, behind the woman with the muffs

35. Rabbit - January 26, 2009 2:30 PM

What happened here? http://i44.tinypic.com/295r3tu.jpg

36. guate6 - January 27, 2009 1:09 PM

#9: haha, I blame the dude leaning over the woman...he tried blaming the dude in the middle.
#12: haha :p (though #14's right)

37. gdawg - January 27, 2009 2:54 PM

Looks like Obiwan was present aswell....

http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=85446092ux9.jpg

38. gdawg - January 27, 2009 2:54 PM

Looks like Obiwan was present aswell....

http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=85446092ux9.jpg

39. PanamaPresente - January 27, 2009 8:52 PM

This guy rocked the inauguration. I think he found Waldo in the back of his throat! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l119/edgardogeorge/obammer.jpg

40. shireen - January 28, 2009 1:03 PM

Did anyone else notice the pair of paints walking down the second walkway in the back without a body? Creepy if you ask me

41. amber - January 28, 2009 2:45 PM

i found p diddy behind the band 11 rows in the center wearing all black behind a man with a blue hat and in front of a guy with looooong blond hair


YAY.. i did not however find waldo, and for that i am ashamed.

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