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Have not posted in a while. I really think this is a differnt way of looking at gravity.
This is a 360 degree panorama of my Cul-de-sac at sunset, my house is on top. The snow is what remains of the big NorEaster we just got in Delaware on the 11th of this month.
Much more photoshop than normal, but I love the effect, hope you do too.
Any and all comments, criticisms welcomed as I really want to know what people think of this effect..
To save everyone the time of trying to figure it out, here is step by step how I created this image. (I am sure there are other ways of getting this image as well.)
1) Take a 360 degree panoramic image. Make sure your tripod is level. I did my image with my camera in Portrait position on the tripod. I took a total of about 35 images. If you have a panhead tripod that is ideal setup. (I did not have one.) Make sure you have a clear cloudless day and make sure the top of each image has all blue sky and the base is all the same color. Makes cleanup and perspective a lot easier to maintain. This is where the street came in handy...
2) Stitch them together.
3) Cleanup any issues with the stitch (this is very time consuming) especially if you did not use a pan head.
4) Adjust the image so that the start and end are exactly 360 degrees (no overlap)
5) Make sure the ends meet up in the correct place. I used guides to make sure the sidewalk met at the same place. (I had to tilt the image a little.)
6) If you tilted the image, crop the image to a rectangle again.
7) Now you have a image that is a lot longer than wide. Adjust this so the image is taller than it currently is, I just doubled the height.
8) Flip the image on the Vertical so it is upside down.
9) Select the image and apply a Distort - Polar Coordinates (use the default Rectangular to Polar)
*If you did this right, you should have a Oval not a square.
10) Resize the image so that it is a circle.
11) flip the image on the Horizontal as it should be a mirror image.
You should now have the basic sphere image. At this point you will want to make adjustments as you feel necessary.
Would love to see other peoples work on this. It is a lot of fun to do and has actually become an obsession in my photography, this is just a fun image.
Edited by jefflund on Feb 21, 2006 at 11:52 AM GMT
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