Gigapan of the Men's National Championship

[KenJulio]

NCAA Championship Gigapan: Sports Illustrated photographer David Bergman created this Gigapan during the University of Connecticut Huskies' national championship win over the Butler Bulldogs at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX on April 4, 2011. The ima

It's interesting to see on press row that some are tweet'ing.

[Abel]

WOW... i see one guy have that laptop privacy screen in front of his notebook... smart man. ha

[GypsyHighSide]

Thanks for sharing.

I love the Gigapan. I would love to buy one, just not sure how much use I would get out of it.

[Tom]

Wow. You can clearly see that I wasn't there. :sad:

[texkam]

Hey, let's play pick out the notables.
There's Jim Boeheim in the front row eating popcorn.

Still looking for Waldo.

... George and Babs had to sit in directors chairs. : (

[tertius]

That cop (right side) is using two sets of Smith and Wesson cuffs.

[Hanky]

Way cool even with the chopped off heads, don't understand the empty seats though.

[texkam]

don't understand the empty seats though.

The Kentucky fans went home.

[The Loft Studios]

I spy.....
1.) George & Barbara Bush
2.) A lady picking her nose
3.) Several wives mad at their husbands
4.) Woman nursing an infant
5.) A good photographer friend of mine who had and extra press pass for me, but I couldn't make it : (
6.) Several badly stitched areas where peoples faces look deformed

[texkam]

A couple kissing.

[peeker]

I love to look at gigapan images as well... this one baffles me because of the "mostly" correctness of the video monitors that are constantly flickering and changing graphics... Things that make you say hmmmmmm.

[texkam]

Eddie Sutton.

[crbeveri]

That's awesome. My seats were in row C of the section this was taken in. I have 2 pics of the Press lines I was gonna post here to have people pick themselves out. Maybe I should :P.

[venchka]

The press photogs on either corner of the court.......I think I see a couple 200/1.8 lenses. Could be 200/2.0.

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Very interesting. Have you looked at center court? He's got a perfect picture of the tip-off which to me, when you're doing a 450 photo stich seems a little too perfect so I'm wondering how in the world he got that!

Also, there's a a grand total of ONE camera on each backboard (I was told it was against NCAA rules to have any there) and a LOT of floor remotes near the bottom left of the far hoop (can't see the floor on the right).

There's also a lof of lenses I don't recognize. (lots of 70-200 and 300's you can see).

Great for analyzing the shooting setups! Thanks for sharing.

Joe