Cool… Art Center is my Alma Mater
Too bad you can’t tell what the image is from this site!
Yes you can you just have to look?
Do you think if they ever put a digital back on it Photoshop could handle the file size? 🙂
CS30 maybe?
They tell you what it is. But, that isn’t like being able to actually see it. What they need to do is send someone in with a digital camera have them photographic as a panorama, stitch it together and then put that on the web. Then we could see it. 🙂
Robert
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Do you think if they ever put a digital back on it Photoshop could handle the file size? 🙂
CS30 maybe?
Come on Adobe you can do. We expect this image size support in Photoshop CS4 The Way Too Extended Edition! 🙂
Robert
All very interesting, but perhaps someone could give even a remote reason as to why you’d bother?
Gives the word "pointless" meaning.
Agreed on the website design as well.
Gross and clunky.
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All very interesting, but perhaps someone could give even a remote reason as to why you’d bother?
Gives the word "pointless" meaning.
Agreed on the website design as well.
Gross and clunky.
Because they could. Because it has never been done before. Because it is interest… even fascinating.
Robert
Hey, when the 300 terapixel cameras come out in few years, we can beat the record. Photoshop CS23 will allow 3 billion pixels x 3 billion pixels.
I am sure the technology is a great step forward – the website is pointless!
Forward Technology? It’s just a very large camera obscura. The technology is a thousand years old.
Plus, I hate it when web sites use JavaScript to resize my browser.
you can turn that off in firefox john… 🙂
Unfortunately, IE is a requirement for a site I visit frequently 🙁
Well the web site like all Flash sites I have seen sucks.
Robert
Unfortunately, IE is a requirement for a site I visit frequently
You can turn IE view on either temporarily, or permanently for selected sites, in Firefox too.
It’s just a very large camera obscura.
Which is why I said this was pointless. Just like re-inventing the wheel would be. The only thing of passing interest is the size, but who really cares? Just like some guy stuffing a heap of hot dogs into his mouth to get into the Guinness Book of Records, this is nothing more than that.
I think we were not given a good look at the "photograph" because, if I know even the most basic thing about silver-gelatin photography, that is the biggest paper negative ever produced.
Making a print of it would equally prove nothing – contact printing has been around since the invention of Calotype photography was announced in 1839 by William Henry Fox Talbot.
Taking what they showed, adjusting the persective, inverting, and a quick Levels adjustment yields
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Beauty!
If that’s hanging as it was taken, you’d have to rotate it 180º as well.
that is the biggest paper negative ever produced
Could also be reversal paper (positive) that’s also used in passport photo booths.
But I agree, there’s no "wow!" in this.
Rob
In the absence of any useful information about it on the website (none that I could find anyway with that infuriating Flash setup opening links on the same screen and requiring tedious backtracking), I’ll correct myself and call it the biggest canvas negative ever produced. On reflection I can’t see paper that size either being made or holding together when hung like that even if it was available.
Looks like they just mixed up loads of standard emulsion and coated the material using paint rollers. I’d imagine processing was accomplished in the same manner.
Imagination = 0, technology = 0, interest = 0
