Among this month’s kick-off activities, two thousand Lexington citizens (out of 31,000) gathered for a collective snapshot of the community today. Benn Craig took the photograph of that gathering above for Wicked Local.
The official town photo is a composite of several images by Joanne Rath, published in a regional edition of yesterday’s Boston Globe. On this Globe webpage you can see that photograph, and enlarge and pan across it to see individual faces. Note the Revolutionary War reenactors from both forces in the front row.
It is a great picture of the community, but I am disappointed in the "stitching" process. Many of our community members have ghostly apparitions, disjointed appendages or in a few instances, have their heads removed entirely. Is it possible to take one high resolution photograph?
ReplyDeleteBill Malone
I noticed some people being cut off at the joins as well, though they seemed to be the fidgety sort, who in very old photographs would have had blurry faces.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of community portrait used to be made with a special panoramic camera than slowly panned across the crowd, recording a sliver of the scene at the time. It was thus possible for an individual to run from one side of the group to the other and appear in the photo twice. But I don't know if such images were crisp enough to zoom in on all the individual faces.