Jeffrey Martin
Gigapixel photography is the craft of shooting hundreds or thousands of photos and joining them together into a single, seamless, ultra-high resolution image. These extremely large images are typically shot with a complex setup involving long lenses and a programmable robot, typically requiring weeks or months of post production (but we can do it in as little as 24 hours, if needed). When done correctly, it is impossible to tell that these photos were made from many smaller photos.
These images are among the largest photographs made by humans, ever.
Gigapixel photos can be used in a few ways:
- Interactive images, viewed on a PC, phone, or tablet. These images allow you to pan around, look up and down, and zoom in and out. These photos can be of skylines and cityscapes, stadiums, landscapes. or interiors. I've shot all of these kinds for satisfied clients before.
- Video animations: essentially a video moving around, or zooming in an out of the image (like the video at the top of this page). These videos can be used for TV commercials or other types of online videos. It is possible to make videos from these images that are technically impossible to create using a standard video camera, in terms of zoom level, sharpness, and resolution. It's even possible to make 8K resolution videos, or even higher!
- Large format photographic prints: These photos are among the largest prints that can exist anywhere in the world. Some of the photos you'll see on this website can be printed tens of meters (hundreds of feet) wide, at full photographic 300DPI resolution!
If you would like to commission or license 360º, Gigapixel, high resolution cityscape and skyline photography, you've come to the right place.
About me
I have been shooting extreme-resolution 360º and Gigapixel Photography since 2004. I've appeared on the BBC, in the Guinness Book of World Records, WIRED, The Guardian, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and other notable publications. My work has been at the heart of many high-profile global advertising campaigns, including Samsung, Unicredit Bank, BT, Wembley Stadium, and Fujitsu.
One of my passions in life is to create extremely high resolution photographs. Often 360º and often of cityscapes and skylines. I love climbing to the top of a tower, and capturing the world from up there, in as much detail as possible. It's the kind of challenge that never gets old.
Portfolio
Shot from the Torre Agbar, a sort of pickle-shaped skyscraper right in the middle of the city, with fantastic views of the sea, mountains, and Sagrada Familia.
This is the largest photo of Barcelona ever made.
Shot from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Shot in Autumn 2018, this image was released in March 2019. It's one of the largest photos of the Paris skyline ever made.
Prague 400 Gigapixels (2018)
Shot from the Astronomical Clock Tower on Old Town Square
This is the highest resolution photo I've ever made, and among the top few largest photographs ever created by anyone. This photo is 900,000 pixels wide, and made from over 7000 individual pictures.
Shot from the Empire State Building
According to some people, this is the center of the universe. In any case, it's a beautiful view of the NYC skyline from up here.
Shot from Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
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Shot from Tokyo Tower
Can you find the baseball players? The temple worshippers? The woman hanging her laundry? The salaryman who went to sleep on a bench, fell on the ground, and kept on sleeping?
Shot from BT Tower
This is the world record photo! With 320 Gigapixels of resolution, it really made its away around the Web, with tens of millions of visitors. It appeared in countless online newspapers and other prestigious publications, and it got covered by two different BBC television shows.
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The Guardian
I was invited to write a short article in The Guardian about my experiences creating the Tokyo Tower Gigapixel photo.This photo got quite a lot of attention when we published it in 2013.
WIRED UK Magazine"The finished Strahov library panorama, released Tuesday on Martin’s website, is a zoomable, high-resolution peek inside one of Prague’s most beautiful halls, a repository of rare books that is usually off-limits to tourists"
Guinness Book of World RecordsMy London 320 Gigapixel image won a Guinness World Record (and is also displayed in the 2014 book) for "World's Largest Panoramic Image".
Boing BoingCory from Boing Boing covers some of the more interesting activity from me and 360 Cities from time to time. Here is one article about the London 320 Gigapixel panorama.
WIRED Magazine"It can't possibly zoom in any further, you'll think. Then: My God it does! Look a little bit longer and you might end up following the same arc as Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, starting as an idle voyeur and ending up as a sort of stationary detective, investigating rooftops, alleys, and people themselves for hidden intrigue." Read the article
