Megapixel

David Bergman is a pioneer. Not content to merely photograph the Inauguration of our 44th President, he felt the need to shame all photographers everywhere with the sheer size and scope of his photograph. He didn't just bring it megapixel-wise, he damn well might have used all of them. The country now is in a megapixel shortage. How big is it?

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.

A two gig photo, 1,474 megapixels. In other words, if you were up near the front, he has a photo of you in excruciating detail doing whatever it is you were doing. According to David, if you zoom in you can see Yo-Yo Ma taking a photo with his iPhone. So if you wonder what that one guy on the balcony was doing holding the Hubble telescope and an external hardrive the size of a Buick, now you know. He was making sure everyone at the Inauguration had a picture of themselves. Hope you didn't blink.

Fullscreen version here.