At game one of this years world series Major League Baseball, photographer David Bergman using a Gigapan technique took this 1,596 Megapixel image that is actually 280 images stitched together. The image took him nearly 20 minutes to capture, but the interesting thing about this shot is that the MLB have made the image compatiable with Facebook so that you can search for yourself or friends in the crowd and tag it - now that is detailed!
This is the latest of Bergman's events projects, he is a respected events and concert photographer and has also worked with alot of celebrities capturing their portraits. His other famous gigapan shot was an epic panoramic taken at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which gained huge media attention. Bergman said "I always try to make unique images using technology and by simply seeing things a bit differently. When I got the assignment to photograph President Obama's inauguration, I knew I had to come up with something that would live up to the magnitude of the historical event."
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2010/gigapan/index.jsp?gpId=9d0c95d7de78a4c7853e8411db304e81
