The tallest building in the world will be opened in just a few more days. This 2.3 gigapixel photo, composed of 381 images taken with a Canon 5D Mk II with a 400mm lens by bristolg, who posted a video to show the high level of detail of the image.
Update: Chas left a comment with a link to the actual photo so you can see the detail by yourself.
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Huge photo of the Burj Dubai on @archdaily http://bit.ly/8tSU9D
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RT @archdaily: Burj Dubai: Almost ready and in detail http://bit.ly/7I0X6j
this is the photo
http://www.dxbae.com/IMG_1844b-Panorama.html
does anyone know what software was used?
Hi Chas -
That’s actually a different one that I did earlier in the year.
Outline process is as follows:
1. 381 separate 21MP images taken with a Canon 5D Mk II and the 100-400mm lens (at 400mm).
2. PTGui Pro software used to stitch the photos together. It does a VERY good job (I’ve tried pretty much every panorama software out there, and nothing comes close to it), but does need a little manual assistance (it can’t stitch the sky for example).
3. Wait a week for the stitching process to finish its job of creating a .psb (Photoshop large format) file. .psb is the only file format that can handle images this large (in pixel and file size). Computer used is an i7-920 with 12GB of RAM and 3 Velociraptor hard drives.
4. Open up the .psb file (all 12.7GB of it) in Photoshop CS4. Rotate image by 1.05 degrees because I forgot to set a vertical reference in PT Gui Pro.
5. Export image as a Microsoft HDView project.
6. Open HDView project in browser, and record moving around it with Camtasia.
Regards,
Gerald.
really amazing work Gerald.
thank you for the update.
I hope that you’ll do this process with some other buildings
This is absolutely fascinating. It doesn’t even look real, and it is hard to comprehend that it actually is. What an amazing achievement.
Wow, an amazing way to view a building.
There’s also a game about ‘the destroyed opulence of Dubai’: http://cool71.com/2009/12/spec-ops-the-line-debut/
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RT @archdaily: Burj Dubai: Almost ready and in detail http://bit.ly/7I0X6j
RT @Urbanverse: Whoa Jan 4? site work rush! RT @archdaily: Burj Dubai: Almost ready and in detail http://bit.ly/7I0X6j #architecture
╠ [from yannikos] Burj Dubai: Almost ready and in detail [updated]-ArchDaily http://bit.ly/8aBcHI
I didn’t expected to see much, but just a big vigorexic structure when I visited Dubai 2 weeks ago. In contrast, I saw a beautiful and detailed building, with sense of scale with the surroundings and a beautiful, perspected and watered access, full of life. Congratulations.
Burj Dubai: Almost ready and in detail [updated]: http://url4.eu/zlQi
What’s the point?
The link is ok but the picture has been removed due to “too much traffic”. Does anybody know where can it be found now? Any other links?