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09/11/2008 02:12:57 AM · #1 |
A poster at school shows the world's longest printed photo, as certified by the Guiness Book of Records. A Japanese camera buff has handmade several panoramic cameras during his life.
His original negative was 30.5 m long (100ft) and 7 cm wide. This produced a single print 145 m long and 35.6 cm wide (475.7 ft x 1.167ft).
The photo was of high school clubs and featured 650 people.
I guess it would have been hard to fit it into the school yearbook... ;-) |
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09/11/2008 06:06:41 AM · #2 |
That's cool!
In college, I helped my art teacher make a large B&W print. I don't recall the exact dimensions, but it was about 30ft long and 6ft high. The photo was a shot of the Great Wall. We made the print as a decoration for an exhibit of Ming Dynasty robes that we put on in the school's gallery. We also made all of the manikins, huge light boxes, display platforms, etc. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun too.
I wish I could remember how we did it, and had the equipment. I'd like to make some big prints for the house.
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09/11/2008 07:18:23 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Mick:
That's cool!
In college, I helped my art teacher make a large B&W print. I don't recall the exact dimensions, but it was about 30ft long and 6ft high. The photo was a shot of the Great Wall. We made the print as a decoration for an exhibit of Ming Dynasty robes that we put on in the school's gallery. We also made all of the manikins, huge light boxes, display platforms, etc. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun too.
I wish I could remember how we did it, and had the equipment. I'd like to make some big prints for the house. |
The first thing that came to mind was this website that I'd read a while back and always thought it'd be cool to try (but never have the time too)...was it a process similar to that? |
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09/11/2008 12:10:17 PM · #4 |
We used an enlargement process, similar to the way normal B&W enlargements are made. Instead of a regular photographic enlarger we used an overhead projector. The gallery itself was the darkroom. We mounted a huge roll of photosensitive paper to a wall, then we projected the image onto the paper for several minutes. The paper was very thick and it had a linen-like texture. I don't remember whether the teacher bought pretreated paper or treated it himself.
BTW, have you seen this Wikipedia article? Largest photographs in the world
The photographers said they made the world's largest disposable camera. :D
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