Surveillance Photo Capabilities

FWIW -

Here's a surveillance phote of Obama being sworn in:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Clearly, Big Brother is watching.....

J.K.

P.S. Clearly, indeed!

david bergman, photographer

Not Big Brother, at all.

Here is the link to the photo and how the image was captured.
Amazing work by an amazing photographer.

http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/

Sorry - no black helicopters here.

Sue said:

Not Big Brother, at all.

Here is the link to the photo and how the image was captured.
Amazing work by an amazing photographer.

http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/

Sorry - no black helicopters here.

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Hi Sue -

The boyz in black have even greater capabilities, trust me. This is just unclassified stuff to give you an idea of when to say "cheese."

J.K.

That must be some camera this guy is using. Can we hire him for the rally this summer?

r11rs94 said:

That must be some camera this guy is using. Can we hire him for the rally this summer?

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The lense is hidden in the Clown's belly button. Make President Obama an honorary BMWMOA member, and I'm sure photogs will follow.

J.K.

There's a lot more of this type of thing here: http://livelabs.com/seadragon/

They've even got an iPhone version of the app.

JK said:

FWIW -

Here's a surveillance phote of Obama being sworn in:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Clearly, Big Brother is watching.....

J.K.

P.S. Clearly, indeed!

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W looks like he's trying to squeeze a fart out or something.

r11rs94 said:

That must be some camera this guy is using. Can we hire him for the rally this summer?

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He said he was using a Canon G10 which is a point and shoot camera . . . a very good point and shoot but a point and shoot nevertheless. He took 220 shots and stitched them together to make one huge photograph. Very cool!

Clarence Thomas looks like he fell asleep.
And check out the gent to the left of the Coast Guard Admiral. Looks like a very well know motorcycle personality.

Man, you wouldn't want to be picking your nose or anything, would you?

If you want to know more know about how these stitched photos are taken, check out this

Believe it or not, the equipment that the photographer used to do that is now within the reach of just about anybody. Not much more $$ than a decent point-and-shoot. Just another one of those technologies that has advanced tremendously in the last few years, mostly due to the growth of the "stitching" software which is now a part of Photoshop, as well as a number of relatively inexpensive programs such as PTAssembler, PTGui and, of course Apple's Quicktime.

http://www.gigapansystems.com/ now sells the Gigapan Epic for $379. It is basically a motorized base that moves the camera in defined degrees horizontally, then up, takes more, etc. What you get is a mosaic of hundreds of hi resolution images that are then 'stitched' into one big, 'gigapixel' photo. These are posted online and the software loads a giga pixel zoom program that lets you zoom in and out. Very cool but, yes, kinda spooky.

If you want to see another example of some amazing photo software, check out the demo of Photosynth which takes everybody's snaps off the web of a given structure or place and synthesizes them together into an interactive, multi photo image. Ya gotta see it, too hard to explain.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

YOWZA !!

I knew this system was coming 4 years ago as a development of NASA and Carnegie Mellon University

www.gigapan.org/index.php

www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/gigapan.html

I used to work for a stock photography company Panoramic Images in Evanston IL sales - rights & permissions, digital imaging and photographer

As to surveillance capabilities you have no idea what can be seen via satellite from space. All I can say is if need be they can see you laying around after a ride

Is Justice Ginsberg in the witness protection program?

And what was the deal with George H. W. Bush's hat? How many nutria had to die to make that thing?

Munchy said:

If you want to see another example of some amazing photo software, check out the demo of Photosynth which takes everybody's snaps off the web of a given structure or place and synthesizes them together into an interactive, multi photo image. Ya gotta see it, too hard to explain.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

YOWZA !!

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Holy smokes. That is pretty flippen awesome.

PAULBACH said:

Clarence Thomas looks like he fell asleep.
And check out the gent to the left of the Coast Guard Admiral. Looks like a very well know motorcycle personality.

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Hey Paul, is it Bob from BOB's BMW????