Worlds biggest photo - Period.....

[666joe]

This is the world’s largest photograph, measuring 28-ft tall and 108-ft wide. It’s of the 5,000-acre Marine Corps Station El Toro, a decommissioned military base that is being converted into hundreds of acres of parkland, museum district, sports complex and thousands of suburban homes in Orange County, California.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7249/photonh5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

To take the world’s biggest photo required the world’s biggest camera – a disused airplane hangar. The team created a massive camera obscura by hanging the canvas - covered in 80-litres of silver halide solution - in the darkened hangar. They then exposed it through an aperture just 1in wide, 15-ft above the ground for 10-days. When done, they developed it in an Olympic sized swimming pool with 600 gallons of developer.

More - http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/

[difenbaker]

That's awesome! First time I've heard of such a thing... using a hangar as a camera. I dont care much about the quality of the photo, the way it was taken was quite a feat in itself.

cheers!

[carcomptoy]

That's pretty insane, although the whole 600-gallons of developer in a pool scares me a bit :o

[666joe]

That's pretty insane, although the whole 600-gallons of developer in a pool scares me a bit :o

A stray cigarrette would have caused the worlds biggest pool fire ? - :p

[robbii]

Only the deep pockets of wealthy Art Center Students combined with the deep pockets of Orange County could have accomplished this....If you're familiar with either you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Very impressive nonetheless, ACCD is one of the most impressive Art & Design schools on the planet.

[mobijunkie]

thats big

[burnbabyburn19]

geez!
what happens when it fades? that's a hell-of-a-lot-of-photo to go to waste!