Peter Langenhahn: German Photographer Combines Hundreds Of Images From Single Sports Event (VIDEO)

Peter Langenhahn isn't your average sports photographer.

The German artist often snaps upwards of 3,000 photos at a single sporting event, which he narrows down to 300 hundred prime shots to be merged into a single, all encompassing image. In a sense, Langenhahn eliminates the time variable from sports.

"A photo is always a snapshot of a single moment," Langenhahn says. "My idea was to capture the collective scene, the best of so to speak, like a documentary film in one picture."

The process can take up to three months and results in a single 100-gigabyte image.

Langenhahn's works include a single image of all the fouls in a single soccer match, 29 basketball players on the court at once and show horses at a jumping event.

The pieces sell for 1,200 euros each.

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03:11 PM on 06/23/2011

Beautiful work, Peter! Congrats on a great story! I shoot GigaPixel photography as and also enjoy collisions of space and time that often happen. Most of my work are 360 gigapixel panos on Photosynth.net (GigaView), GigaPan.org (GigaView360), and 360cities.net, but I shot a couple of massive 20 gigapixel images from the stage at U2's 360 Tour in Anaheim, CA last weekend with GigaPixel FanCam! Amazing experience from the center court - http://www.u2.com/gigapixelfancam/110618/ You should connect with them. Happy to introduce. The Facebook integration is awesome for the fans.

Check out my Grand Canyon GigaView project, a gigapixel virtual tour of America's Best Idea - http://gigapanmagazine.org/vol3/issue1/
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Thomas

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03:58 AM on 06/22/2011

Hmmm! Good, Peter. Would you consider doing a boxing match? I know of a great boxer well worth the effort, depending on who he's fighting. Emmanuel Augustus, the great dancing genius drunken master vs. someone as good as Mayweather, Pacquaio, or whoever Augustus thought would make the best visual fight for your compositions. I see you like lots of people in lots of space. This would still work in a 20ft ring because of the intense, primal energy. Compressed energy. Maybe you could cover it from the upper catwalk doing work from all four sides of the ring, and put it together as a 4 print series.

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11:26 AM on 06/21/2011

Very creative, Peter...love your new approach to an old art form. Best of luck with your endeavors.