Stefan Fiedler sent me this:
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At the recent Photo+Adventure trade show in Vienna, Austria my photo and fine art printstudio SALON IRIS proudly presented the giant panoramic photo print “Twilight Light” by Brooklyn, NY photographer Lazarus Jean-Baptiste. It is what we believe is the biggest ever in one piece printed and mounted photo exhibition print.
http://www.photoadventure.at/
http://www.photoadventure.at/weltrekord-megaprint-by-salon-iris/
Printed by SALON IRIS with an HP L28500 latex printer at photographic quality with 1200dpi resolution at the gigantic dimensions of 8,2 x 31,8 feet and mounted in one piece we could impressively demonstrate state-of-the-art photo and printing capabilities.
Brooklyn, NY based photographer Lazarus Jean-Baptiste (a.k.a. LAZARUS2020) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He moved to NY at the age of 11 where he became a successful make-up artist. Over the past years the skyline of Manhattan has become his prefered “model”. He describes his photographs as “UHDR2” (Ultra High Dynamic Range and Resolution Cityscapes).
http://lazarus2020.com/
Please also see Lazarus´ bio attached.
Lazarus shot 26 individual photos with a Sony Alpha 7II at two rows of 13 images which were stitched for the giant panorama. The lens he used was a Canon EF 200mm F2.8L. He shot from from the New Jersey shores 1,5 miles away. Still individual persons can easily be identified in the windows of the Manhattan skyscrapers!
Interesting side note: Stefan Fiedler only met Lazarus Jean-Baptiste recently and by mere chance in front of the Photoplus Expo 2015 at the NY Javits Center when they started talking about the same Sony Alpha 7RII camera that they had both hanging around their necks. Over a cup of coffee Stefan discovered the incredible talent of the self-taught photographer Lazarus and they both decided to show Lazarus amazing work to the world – starting with the sensational panoramic print and more fascinating ChromaLuxe prints at Photo+Adventure.
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SALON IRIS (www.salon-iris.com) is a leading photo- and fine art print studio. It was founded 1996 by Stefan Fiedler in Vienna, Austria. The studios name refers to the legendary Iris inkjet printer that the studio used in the early days.
The highly successful Photo+Adventure trade show in Vienna, Austria attracts more than 20.000 photo and outdoor enthusiasts every two years.
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The lighting makes it looks like it has giant stitch marks.
Impressive. The most I’ve stitched was I think 12. That was enough for me…just about choked my CPU.
I wonder what the cost of a print that size would run.
“Lazarus, come out.” John 11:43
My Name is sebastian, can you find a biblical quotation for that too?
Hey Sebastian. Sorry Bro. don’t know of one 🙂
I can life with it. 🙂
Nice work and I love your video on the homepage. The beginning looks like a preparation in “mission impossible”. 😉
Thanks Seb. Sometimes getting up to go shoot when it’s cold feels like “Mission Impossible”. Have a great day.
Jean-Baptiste, Nice pictures bro ! Tres belles photos ! Boug, foto la bon tou bonnement ! Buenas imajes !
Gracia compadre!
Yes Pancanikonpus!
The most I have stitched together is about 150 and its not hard to do at all, it just take time. The challenge is to find a company who can print it out and to find a wall that fits.
Nice work! Want to see it by myself.
It looks like they need a new light concept there. 🙂
Canikon start to mobilize their army into mirrorless…
Sony division must make prep. to hold their stronghold from Canikon in mirrorless competition. But the question, is How?
1. Abandon P&S camera. Leave it with two only cameras: RX10 & RX100 series (high zoom, high mp, high fps, evf)
2. Roll out Fixed-Lens-Mirrorless (APSC) to fill up P&S segment (opt: splashproof), awe and shock the whole rival P&S segment. Aim: Pocketable, Image quality and Bokehlicious oriented
3. Roll out <$999 full frame mirrorless
4. Roll out "all-in-wonder" perfect mirrorless asap (global shutter, ui, battery, focus system, etc)
Good luck sony imaging division in 2016!
Worlds biggest? Have you seen Apple’s iPhone 6 photo billboards?
Billboards aren’t printed on one piece. This photo is printed and mounted on one piece.
Read the text. It states “we believe” and “one piece”.
Also, “photo exhibition”.
I very much doubt that the Apple 6 photos on billboards are printed from a single sheet of paper. Look closer… Also if you look closer to the billboards you’ll see a mention that the pictures were digitally enhanced to allow enlargements to such proportions.
This of course does not detract from the fact that IPhone 6 incorporate very much capable cameras especially when considering their size factor. I feel that these can be a complement to full size cameras.
Impressive to say the least. Would love to see it some day.
8,2 x 31,8 feet at 1200dpi would be 458368 x 118110 pixels. How many megapixels is that?
Spatial dithering to increase color depth – you need LOTS of tiny printer pixels per input pixel to generate 24bpp color.
dpi is dots per ich and has nothing to do with the resolution of the file itself which is ppi or pixels per inch. Dpi is do do with the printer
By my math, with no overlap in the stitched images, the image resolution is right around 200dpi.
Andrea, are you sure it’s 1200dpi? It must be a lot less than that.
31.8 feet = 381.6 inches, @1200dpi that’s 457,920 pixels wide!
So with 13 frames per row, that means each photo has a width of 34,200 pixels, which is a lot more pixels than any Sony camera 🙂
Unless of course the image was upscaled for the print…
Don´t confuse image resolution with printer resolution – that´s two different things! And yes, off course the RIP scales the resolution of the file up to that print size.
Yeah. I think a typical printer only supports a few levels per dot, so to do 24bpp color, you need LOTS of small dots per input pixel combined with dithering.
Considering that one pixel/point consists of many dots it’s well within the realm of the possible. Depending on the droplet sizes and inks available to the printer it even can be non-excessive.
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/exhibitions/leicester_angle.html
There are a lot of big prints out there 🙂
The largest I’ve printed on was 13 x 3m but not in one piece and on vinyl. (just for wall coverings in an office fitout) I did the same image as a 6.6 x 1.2m acrylic split into 3 just because the acrylic sheets aren’t long enough and the joints suited 3 rather than 2 pieces. Besides transporting such sides would be a nightmare. Looking at the pic here 12 people are holding it up. The transport people definitely don’t wear white gloves. Pretty impressive printing at that size though. Good on him.
More of his stuff here:
http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-1546645543/iamlazarus2020/photos
Would have a printing cost about the same as the national debt of a small country if they had used Epson branded ink:-)
I think with Canon ink , the country could have been even larger. LOL
World record print of the most uninteresting and over shot subject on the planet.
Too bad the picture is a shitty HDR picture of an uninteresting evening in NYC.