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A gigapixel virtual tour via the Colorado River of America's premier natural attraction.
Grand Canyon GigaView was crowd-source funded via Kickstarter.com in the spring of 2010. It's 27 images, most of which are full 360 degree panoramas, were captured alongside the Colorado River over the course on an 18 day private rafting trip. The photographer rowed one of the rafts through over 180 named rapids in the course of the 225 mile trip.
To date, Grand Canyon GigaView has been explored by almost half a million people on various platforms including GigaPan.com, Photosynth.net, Google Earth, Bing Maps, and 360Cities.net.
Learn more about the trip with standard photos & video
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Grand Canyon GigaView is a project by Thomas Hayden. Thomas has shot over 400 gigapixel panoramas in the two years since the Canyon, including the world's largest stage at U2's 360 Tour and on the field for the NFL. He continues to shoot daily for clients and for fun in and around his home in Portland, Oregon.
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Printing does not have the range of blacks and colors that monitors use. Printed images are adjusted to match the canvas, polymer, paper and inks. Desired results, source images, and budget dictate the medium, process, size, permanence, and brilliance.
Wall murals of 45 feet long have been produced from some of these images. 3' x 5' posters look great. And canvas prints appear to be paintings except for the incredible detail. It is possible to wrap entire rooms with panoramic wall coverings with or without text or advertising.
These posted images were often shot, stitched and posted without any cropping, adjustments or delay and are "previews" of finished prints. Printing benefits greatly from finely adjusted colorspace, contrast, and image editing done for all finished works.
Cropping allows "snapshot" prints that use 95% or 10% of the image area for a print in a wide range of sizes. 300 pixels/inch is "standard high resolution printing" that make a 10,000 pixel wide image 33 inches wide that appears sharp from one foot away. A 30,000 pixel wide print can be a hundred inches wide and appear sharp from one foot away.
All of my prints are custom, but I do license images for architectural installations and mixed media applications. Large 3D panoramas are also available for digital backgrounds for cinema, advertising, and VR apps.
contact me at toeppen@comcast.....net for more information, comments, requests, or proposals
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在颱風肆虐的一週後重新回到了蘭嶼。一個人的旅程,我遠遠的瞭望著這座島嶼,希望能記下眼睛所見的一切;也漸漸的有了較為親近的朋友,些許的了解到他們心中的世界。電視播出的,是荒廢的家園;觀光客留念的,是自然的美景;而不可見的,是樹叢中的祖先靈魂、是深山裡的珍貴水源、是農田中等待發芽的芋頭、是家戶裡壞掉的那台電腦、是依附在珊瑚礁上的美味九孔、是隱藏無所不在的輻射。
謹以這些照片獻給我的朋友世偉、Wumis及照顧我的民宿鐘先生與李小姐。也希望能以這些超高解析度的照片,讓各位網友在欣賞之餘,稍稍地了解蘭嶼。
斌華 2012/10/31
Revisited Orchid Island a week after the typhoon hazard. Traveling alone, I looked at this island from distant, tried to remember everything projected into my eyes. Gradually I had some close friends, and little by little to know the world in their minds. Destroyed land shown on TV; Scenic pictures taken by tourists; but what cannot be seen, are spirits of ancestors within the bushes; are treasurable water in the deep mountain; are the taros waiting to bud in the farm; are the computers crashes in the families; are the calms stick to the coral reef; and the radiation hidden everywhere.
Pinhua Chen 2012/10/31
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