Robot Photographer Makes Super Size Portraits

Swiss photographer Daniel Boschung created a unique project called “Face Cartography” – a super portrait series of 9 individuals, each taken by an industrial robot with a professional camera and macro lens and over 600 shots combined into a 900 Megapixel image.

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We have seen our fair share of gigapixel images – mostly those of cities around the world. However, this is the first time (that we know of) that a similar concept is undertaken for shooting portraits of people.

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Boschung used a Canon EOS Mark ll camera with a 180mm macro lens, a broncolor Scoro S 32000 RFS 2 flash (required for the hundreds of consecutive flash firings in a short period of time required) and of course an industrial robot and special software which was written specifically for the project.

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Another video showing the industrial robot with a camera taking hundreds of macro pictures of an entire painting with a similar technique

You can read more and watch the Face Cartography project images (as well as zoom in) on Boschung’s website.

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Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.