Technology Explained, Practice
Daniela Bowker
Resolution and pixels and image quality! Oh my! ...

When you hear the term 'high-res' thrown about with such abandon when it comes to images for web use, have you ever stopped to think just how big or how high quality and image meant for the web needs to be?

Resolution and pixels and image quality! Oh my! Saving images for the web
Feature Articles, Photography Theory
Haje Jan Kamps
Low-contrast photographs don't have to be boring

There's an assumption that high-contrast images are more dynamic, more compelling, more inviting. Have a go at some low-contrast photography. You might surprise yourself with the results.

Low-contrast photographs don't have to be boring
Feature Articles, Theory
Daniela Bowker
Seeking balance in your photos

Balance doesn't mean symmetry; it means an internal consistency and tension within your photos. And it's a vital element of composition. 

Seeking balance in your photos
Feature Articles, Photography Theory
Haje Jan Kamps
Training your photographic luck

Great photos might be down to a little bit of luck, but most of that 'luck' you make yourself. Don't believe us? Read on...

Training your photographic luck
Feature Articles, Practice
Daniela Bowker
The ups and downs and ins and outs of ...

Photographing buildings doesn't have to mean wide-angle lenses and fretting about correcting for the keystone effect. Any lens, and angle. Don't believe us? Let us show you!

The ups and downs and ins and outs of photographing buildings

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A fabulous 40 gigapixels

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Do you remember the 80 gigapixel panorama of London that we featured in November? (No? Here’s a reminder.) Well, the guy behind it, Jeffrey Martin, has just unveiled a 40 gigapixel picture taken of the Philosophical Library of the Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic. This, apparently, makes it the largest ever indoor picture. Forty gigapixels is a lot of pixels, people. If it were printed out, the picture would be 23 long and 12 metres tall. Nope, that won’t fit in the Small Aperture Mansion.

The picture – okay, 2,947 images that have been stitched together – was shot on a Canon 550D with a 200mm lens. It took five days to capture. I don’t want to think about how long it took to edit. You want to know? Deep breath, then: over 110 hours. I go goggle-eyed after a just a few hours of editing. The detail on it is so fine that you can see the brushstrokes on the ceiling’s Baroque fresco and the creases in the spines of the library’s 40,000-odd volumes.

I think I might’ve just lost a chunk of my evening dedicated to zooming in and zooming out of this. You can do so, too, on the 360cities website.

(Headsup to TechCrunch.)