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Using the hangar as a camera and washing it in the swimming pool, it took six American artists five years to take the biggest photo in the world.

"Grand View: Great American Photography Exhibition" is an exhibition with only one photo. This photo hangs in the hall of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and looks like a China ink painting from a distance. This world's largest photo was taken by an American photography team with the world's largest camera. Big enough to look up, big enough to be full of doubts: is this a photo? Yes, imaging with camera principle. Is this a painting? Yes, because there are many feelings painted on it. Is this art? Yes, because it is the work of six artists.

The Past, Present and Future of Tolo Harbour

Mark chamberlain, robert johnson, Clayton Spada and Jerry Bell Chilfield all teach at Cypress College in California. Like Douglas mccullough and Jacques Canil, they are artists, curators, educators and photographers. A six-member team is also called the Heritage Project Team.

Jerry Bo died in 2009 and was the founder of the organization. He sorted out the original documents of the abandoned Toro Marine Air Force Base in the United States. After more than a year's application, in 2002, six artists were allowed to carry out the "Heritage Project" at Tolo Port Base to capture the legend here by photography.

Tolo base is located in Southern California, only 65 kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, just across the San Joaquin Mountain from the Pacific Ocean, and in the center of a basin facing the sea.

At first, this was the place where Indian tribes lived. 1769, after the Spanish expedition arrived, it began grazing and distributed a large area of land to the landlords. 182 1 the Mexican revolution broke out and the Mexicans took over here. From 1850 to now, it belongs to the United States. 185 1 year, james owen used the money earned from the gold rush to build Owen Ranch.

19411February, just a few days after Japan attacked the American troops in Pearl Harbor, the US Navy decided to build a major air base on the west coast. They set their sights on the perfect inland valley of Owen Ranch, because the fog on the coastal beach is a natural cover there. 1942 12 In February, the Marine Corps Air Station in EI Toro was completed.

From agricultural land to commercial land to military land, this air base played a leading role in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. However, in 1993, Tolo was also involved in the list of closed military bases. There are many political controversies about whether to build an airport or a park after the closure. "After many lawsuits, media debates and four rounds of independent elections, we finally decided to build a giant park bigger than new york Central Park. At this time, we began to intervene in this land. " Clayton said.

In order to connect the past, present and future of the land, they photographed 1800 buildings in the base and every inch of the surrounding land. They tread every runway, wander in front of dark buildings, and photograph various changes of the earth from hovering helicopters. They alternate back and forth between the two photography modes, recording the reality with archival photos and crossing the reality with artistic photos. They have taken 65,438+050,000 photos, recorded more than 65,438+000 hours, published three books, held 65,438+09 exhibitions, and set the Guinness World Record for the largest photo in history.

Turn the hangar into a camera

In 2006, the heritage project team found that an abandoned F- 18 military jet fighter hangar was very suitable for being converted into the world's largest camera. "Very dark, suitable for black boxes. If you really want to take pictures with a camera, only small holes can enter the light, and other places are all black. " Mark said.

In order to achieve absolute darkness, they and volunteers spent thousands of hours blocking all the holes in the hangar. Douglas said: "This job is boring, with a lot of work and special fatigue." After using 73 16 square meters of black plastic sheeting, 4,940 liters of foam filler, 4.6 miles of black tape and 20 liters of black paint, the world's largest darkroom was blocked.

Since the pinhole imaging principle is to be used, it is necessary to repeatedly test how big the pinhole should be. Clayton said: "The pinhole size will determine the image quality, and the uneven edge of pinhole will also affect the image quality." Finally, they decided to use 6 mm as the pinhole diameter. The pinhole is 4.6 meters from the ground, and there are no optical facilities such as lenses. After three months of hard work, they finally converted it into a camera with a length of 49.23 meters, a width of 24.23 meters and a height of 13.46 meters.

Robert said that the film used in the camera was completely useless to them: "something new must be made." We specially ordered a piece of seamless canvas with primary colors of 1079 square meters from Germany. "Because of the light transmission, we should brush the emulsion first and heat it before brushing. On July 7, 2006, 100 people and a large-capacity submersible pump went out at the same time, and 80 liters of emulsion was scraped onto the canvas by hand.

"In the case of all black, so many people have completed this work, and the answer is a miracle." Jacques said. The canvas is 3 stories high and 1 1 floor wide. It can only be imaged if it is placed in the right place. The film and the hanging rigging weigh 545 kilograms. "Some previous ideas were finally proved to be completely infeasible in practical operation." It is also a miracle that the film was finally successfully released.

So Robert said, "It is very interesting for us that we make cameras, we make movies, and we work in cameras."

"Oh, my God, come out!"

There are cameras and films, but I don't know how long the exposure time is. At first, they looked for answers online. Some people say that the shortest is one and a half hours, and the longest is two days. Others say that the maximum exposure is 22 days. "We finally understand that no one really knows. In the end, the only way is an old method that photographers have used for so many years: try it with test pieces. " Douglas said. 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours ... They tried different exposure times, but unfortunately, they all failed because the image was too dark. Douglas said it was like a student writing a paper, and finally the hard disk crashed.

After more experiments, they realized that the failure was due to too long exposure time and too dark. "So telling us that people who have been exposed for 22 days must be all wet, never more than an hour." Douglas said.

On July 8, 2006, at 1 1: 30, six artists returned to the camera, opened the lens and sat under the small hole for 35 minutes, which was the exposure time they determined after detailed testing. "It is a great honor for photographers to work in their own cameras." Douglas said, "We are under great pressure and afraid of any interference in the imaging process." Douglas said, after all, it's not like using a digital camera. Just open it and press it.

After filming, you need to take a bath in the huge swimming pool. Jacques just wanted to describe the washing process with magic and chaos. "A total of 65,438+0,800 barrels of developer and fixer were used. The development process required 40 people, and the other 40 people did other work inside. Finally, use two double-tube fire water guns with a flow rate of up to 2850 liters per minute to develop the photos for 45 minutes. "

You know, these six people are not young guys, but the hangar is completely closed and all black. In summer, the temperature is as high as 45 degrees Celsius or even 48 degrees Celsius, and the people inside make a hullabaloo about and make a scene, which is crazy. "The smell of all kinds of chemicals is very exciting," Jacques said.

"Oh, my God, come out!" Clayton shouted in his mind, "When the canvas is wet, it is very dark. I'm scared, very scared. This is just the only chance. " After the canvas was hung, everyone was happy to see the images begin to appear. After eight months of hard work, they have mixed feelings.

The control tower and double runways of the air station in front of the hangar, the mountains behind, the Yuan Ye and the beach in the distance were photographed as the largest photos in history-32.74 meters long and 9.45 meters wide, which they called "big photos".

This photo cost $65,000. They called all their friends and used various connections to raise money. Before creation, I sold ideas, and later I sold a limited edition "Big Photo" with a length of 1.3 and a width of 0.8 meters. "2500 yuan a piece, limited to 20 pieces, everyone signs." Jacques said that the emulsion supplier also gave up $900.

"Our production process itself is a documentary, or a review of the history of photography. At first, the most primitive pinhole imaging principle was used, and then the emulsion was brushed by hand. After the photo was formed, countless viewers took this work again with digital cameras, and then people all over the world knew it. " But Douglas said that they have been arguing: whether this is the tomb of past photography records or the sign of entering a new photography era. But for them, the greatest power of art is not to give an answer, but to ask new questions.

The biggest photo in the world 2 The biggest photo was taken in White Bee.

The details of the peak cable car, climbers and so on are clearly photographed.

This is the biggest photo you can see in the world at present. An international team led by Italian photographer filippoblengini filmed in Blanc Bee. If it is printed at 300 dpi (short for DotSperinch, that is, dots printed per inch) with general digital laser technology, it will be as big as a football field.

Speaking of panoramic photos, I believe no one will feel strange now. Basically, a slightly better mobile phone will provide this function. Although panoramic photos are common, I believe that the panoramic view of 365 billion pixels will still bring you a shocking feeling. The world's largest panorama was completed by a professional team in two weeks, and more than 70,000 photos were taken, and the capacity of these photos alone reached an astonishing 46tb( 1tb= 1024gb).

These materials are located near Mont Blanc on the snowy Italian-French border. In order to get the best visual effect, the shooting team braved the heavy snow of MINUS 10 degrees Celsius and trudged to the peak of 3500 meters above sea level with heavy equipment. They put the shooting equipment in the selected location for more than 35 hours of all-round continuous shooting.

The post-processing and stitching of the photos took the team two months. If printed at a resolution of 300dpi, a 365-billion-pixel panorama can cover a football field.

The world's largest picture 3 Shanghai Big Pixel Studio released a picture called the world's largest: 195G pixels! Yes, it is 1000 times higher than the "high pixel" 20MP level on the market!

This photo was taken on the Oriental Pearl.

The great thing is that you can constantly enlarge the details.

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You can zoom in a little.

Compared with the original picture, this is an amazing magnification! In fact, they don't use much high technology, but they still use ordinary cameras (probably the best on the market, but they didn't say anything) and telephoto lenses to divide the whole picture into thousands, take pictures bit by bit by accurately controlling the framing, and then "sew" it with software.

The shooting process lasts for several hours, and then it takes several months to process them one by one, and then "sew". It's really hard

I remember more than ten years ago, I met a very awesome person on the Internet. I took 50 shots of a scene with Canon 40D and 70-200/2.8 lenses, and then "stitched" it. It's already amazing. He is an electronic engineer. Could it be that he founded Jingkun Technology?

The company has now successfully occupied a niche market. Many big cities in the world have hired them to make oversized publicity photos, and more than 70 cities have invited them, including Hongkong, Peking, Reykjavik, Zurich, new york and Vatican.