This page is a bit better, and lets you zoom to the pixel level (they say):
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch?...
Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
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#102I am literally standing in the museum, looking at night watch as this moment, and saw this post. Legend.
It's interesting that while standing in front of the painting, someone would be looking at their phone, and that they would look at a photograph of the painting.
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#103A colleague of mine made this very nice way to explore the (often) high resolution images from their collection: https://rijkscollection.net/ Highly recommended and easy to fall into a “rijkscollection hole” for a bit :)
Works better than the one mentioned in the title, this one let you zoom in and out with scroll weel.
*scroll wheel
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#104This is a remarkable complement to seeing a work of art in person. We can get close through zoom in ways that we couldn't at the museum without putting the piece at risk.
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#105> To create this huge image, the painting was photographed in a grid with 97 rows and 87 columns with our 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera. Looks like they had the ability to move the camera precisely to one of 97x87 grid positions. I wonder if they had any headroom in the precision of that movement. Could they have used a lower resolution but much cheaper camera and compensated by taking, say, a 200x200 gr…
It should be much easier to take overlapping pictures and "seam" them together.
I assume there are software tools for that.
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#106Fascinating to see how the paint cracked. I zoomed in around the faces of the three men on the bottom right hand side and there are light areas on their faces with few cracks and dark areas with lots of cracks, eg around the noses. I wonder what caused that.
A next step could be to "restore" those cracks in the image, and get an image of how it looked when new.
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#107I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects…
> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it. Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected: - The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) - Guernica (Picasso) - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí) Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough. Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucen…
Add to that the Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough at the Pasadena Huntington and anything by Hans Holbein the Younger such as the portraits of Sir Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell at the Frick Collection.
The former uses a brilliant blue paint that is simply impossible to convey via RGB display or CMYK printing color spaces and the latter look like giant printed photographs, down to the stubble on More's face, even though they were painted in the early 16th century.
> And so much of the European painting mastery in the 1400s+ is the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a desired effect.
I'm sad that people don't bother with that as much today. I went on a shopping spree a while ago buying a bunch of Williamsburg and Old Holland oil paints and their colors are absolutely amazing, especially the old school heavy metal paints which come in a variety of opacities. Blending them is an art in its own right. Sadly I don't have any skill at painting so it's mostly abstract experiments with color.
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#108I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects…
What is so incredible is the technique they used, the level of detail and how lifelike they are.
Something which is very hard, if not impossible, to get unless you look at the real deal.
I'm generally not into art but my mom took me to the Rijksmuseum, and I was blown away by the details in those paintings. I spent probably 15 minutes just studying the translucent ruff in one of the paintings in amazement.
The paint is three dimensional, the light interacts in ways which just aren't captured in a photo. Viewing the paintings on my screen here now they all look flat and quite dull in comparison.
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#109A colleague of mine made this very nice way to explore the (often) high resolution images from their collection: https://rijkscollection.net/ Highly recommended and easy to fall into a “rijkscollection hole” for a bit :)
This is super cool. Thanks for sharing the link
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#110I am literally standing in the museum, looking at night watch as this moment, and saw this post. Legend.
Hacker News in one eye and the painting in the other?