The iPad winning idea(s) and a challenge
Kerry Ellis offered to ask the astronauts to take a high-res pic inside the International Space Station. Ooooo!! Kerry, it isn’t the winning idea for the staircase but I have a wall 140″ tall x 140″ high that I’ll mount that shot on if you can arrange it, and I’ll send you a very fine iPad.
Photo courtesy NASA:
A few days ago I was sure we would settle on award-winning underwater photographer (and editor of Wetpixel) Eric Cheng’s idea for an underwater pano.
Eric, I love the idea so much I may be willing to commission it, and we may not be able to pull off the iPad-winning idea, so stay tuned.
The idea that swept us away:
California Photographer Patrick Smith suggested getting to the top of the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and shooting South, placing the south tower on the staircase far wall, and the spans on the two side walls, with views of SF through the spans. Epic! Chilling! I’ll be sending your iPad right away.
The challenge:
How do you get permission? Some have:
Golden Gate tower photoset on Flickr.
What’s in it for the people who manage the Golden Gate Bridge? An epic public domain gigapixel image for historical purposes? Make it available for public viewing somewhere important?
Anyone know how to get permission?
Thanks!
Chris MacAskill
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Great idea… time to put “social networking” to work to find the power that can grant such a request.
I’m worried that SM HQ is getting saturated with SF photos… so good thing Toni let you take those great cathedral shots.
Contact the San Francisco film office. They arrange these kinds of things for the movie business all the time.
There’s a comment on http://www.flickr.com/photos/62864610@N00/249554021/in/set-72157594295225076/ from the set photographer which describes how to get permission: make friends with a Golden Gate Bridge Authority Board Member.
Thanks! I tossed in bed all night thinking about how to pull off this shot if given the chance. What lens to use? Morning or evening? Do you focus on the city and let the cables be out of focus or the other way around? f/11?
You use a tilt-shift lens >:)
Chris/Patrick: reach out to David Sanger, he has photographed from the top of the bridge in the past…
You have the best jobs in the world!
I have a picture that would be perfect, I have a shot of the Rocket garden at the Kennedy Space museum in Florida. It was a stitched image of about 12 images. I also have one of the Saturn rocket’s end section (boosters), and several space capsules.
I have tried loading them to my site, but the are so large, it won’t let me….
Let me know if you are interested in any.
Jennifer
Any news on this task?