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NY Times Is The Latest To Join The Big Picture Revolution

Go trend go. See it (here).

Via, PDN Pulse.

by A Photo Editor on August 28, 2008 · 9 comments


{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mike Hartley August 28, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Didn’t ZOOZOOM do this in the year 2000? Eight (8) years ago! Full screen imagery. Revolutionary.

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2 A Photo Editor August 28, 2008 at 3:44 pm

well yeah but these are newspapers. it only took them 8 years to figure it out. that’s warp speed.

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3 Mike Hartley August 28, 2008 at 6:20 pm

You are so right. It is warp speed for them!

They did a multimedia piece on William Safire about 2 years ago or more, and I can’t find it now. But it was way ahead of its time for them.

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4 TeeJ August 28, 2008 at 8:22 pm

so what if they’re not up to speed on everything image related…it’s still ball-tickling imagery. One day …dammit.

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5 WDOphoto August 29, 2008 at 7:37 am

Wow – I really hope this spreads fast, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, has recently, (last two years maybe), been trying some cool new things, similar to this on a smaller scale and they’ve also been producing some small-scale soft-news videos.

I love and respect the amazing work of the photogs that work for the PG and would love to see some of their work displayed this way.

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6 Fotografo August 29, 2008 at 9:16 am

Really nice.
Did you notice that on one of the last fram you can see 2 cameras wireless controlled?
Ok I really like multimedia presentation.

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7 todd huffman August 29, 2008 at 12:00 pm

@6

Check out Newsweek’s Olympics coverage if you haven’t already concerning remote cameras. Donald Miralle has some great shots of some of the setups here..

<ahref=”Vincent Laforet .
“>here. has a some great info and comentary on this technique as well.

P.S. Sorry, not trying to hijack this thread! :)

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8 todd huffman August 29, 2008 at 12:03 pm
9 tech_guy August 29, 2008 at 6:06 pm

I think this is thanks in large part to Flash’s new bitmap smoothing feature that makes it possible to dynamically render/re-render an image in different resolutions in pretty high quality.

What this does is allow you to display a single image in different resolutions without having to pre-process different versions of the image in various resolutions (depending on the user’s monitor). This didn’t exist before Flash 8/ActionScript 3. It’s a really cool feature.

In fact, I’m working on a redesign of a website for an architectural photographer where continuous resizing on-the-fly is a feature.

Back in the day, if you wanted to dynamically serve various resolutions, you had to use a super fast, expensive back-end technology that would resize an original hi-res image to the desired size in a matter of milliseconds. Now you can just load one image and just let Flash Player figure out the rest.

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