Central Park at night is spectacular, especially when you can have the complete park in one picture. Right in the middle is not a corner of the park, but it is Central Park West, the 280 degree view just let it look like a corner. It would had been great if the YMCA had their sign on, but I guess it’s broken or they have to save on their electricity bill, or the neighbors complained… I will get a digital c-print at 96×40 inch done of this.
Digital, about 400 megapixel.
I finally managed to (re-) do all 4. The initial stitches weren’t good enough, and I needed to bring all 4 into one consistent look anyway. Since I am preparing for the bwac.org show in September, I am debating how big I should print them. Each of them has about 23000×24000 pixel, so theoretically I could print them at 3x3m, or 10x10ft, if there was a printer… so for practical and economic reasons I decided to print each at 152x152cm, or 60x60in. I still hope they look awesome. The slideshow shows the 1200px version (basically 5% of the original), but you still need a large screen to see them. Press “x” on your keyboard in case you are lost.
Digital, each about 550 megapixel.
I assume every tourist has seen the Pepsi Cola sign across from the UN, but always wondered how to get there. Well, you sort of can’t, but it’s just a matter of just going there. I like this one a lot, even if the visual information content is not very high. But it has a lot of ompf.
Digital, about 500 megapixel.
NY has hundreds of bridges, not just the five that everybody knows. You can see five of them from Rainey Park in Astoria: Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt Island Bridge, Triboro and Hellsgate, and a small pedestrian bridge going from Manhattan to Wards Island. I had to wait a couple of days for the rain to stop to take that panorama. Rainey Park closes after 9pm, and all the gates stay open. Three police cars drove into the park, and came up to me and asked me what I was doing, that the park is closed, that I’m not supposed to be here, that I could be a terrorist, that it’s dangerous in parks alone at night, that I could get a summons, yadayadayada… fortunately they were all kind enough to leave me alone after a brief chat.
Digital, about 350 megapixel.
I am taking part in the projekt30 september art competition, and the public can vote on each artists, before the jury sees it at the beginning of september. So, please go to http://www.projekt30.com/jury.html, click on “jury the exhibition” and click “next artist” until you see my panoramas.
The artists are displayed in random order, my work might be on page 3 or on page 110. If you like, feel free to give your vote to all the other fine artists. You have to vote for at least 20 artists to make your vote count.
Update: After so many of you voted for me, and got me into the “top 30,” it turned out that that was it. No further benefit, no further publicity from the website, no links, no contacts, no answers. I wasted my money, and your time for nothing. Thank you very much Projekt30, for such a useless Website.
Broadway and Times Square are the places every tourist visits, it’s full of lights, and people, and cars, and stuff. Julius was very kind to let me up the rooftop garden to take a panorama. I feel a bit cropping-challenged on this one, so the mini slide show has three different cropings. Please let me know which one you like via comments.
I shot this with me new “over-the-edge” setup, but I hope Julius will let me up there again, because I should have pushed the camera further out over the edge. It’s just a bit scary, 30 floors up, but I will try again, with less curving things in the foreground. So as a bonus, here is the full 650 megapixel zoomify panorama. Make it as fullscreen as you can.
Digital, about 650 megapixel.
Tudor City is at the end of 42nd street, the area where no tourist ever goes. Most might see the red neon signs on top of the building, but I’m not sure why they were off that night… One of the scene of the Bourne Ultimatum was shot exactly at this location, with Joan Allan’s character waiting (in vain) for Matt Damon’s character. I love NY.
Digital, about 200 megapixel.
