For this Assignment we were assigned to create our own project that involved photography. my idea was to create these little planets that i found while browsing ideas on the interweb. my concept was to shoot these panoramic shots in 4 or 5 different areas, for example an industrial area, a cityscape, a forested area, to show how each area is like it own little world, and how the differ to each other.
There are many different ways of creating these panoramic planets, but the photo taking process is all relatively similar. for my test planet i just used my phone camera and created a sort of plumb line attached to the bottom of it so that i could insure that every photo was taken from the same spot at the same height. it took about 5 minutes of me rotating around taking pictures so that each one overlapped the previous one by about a third so that it would be easy for them to be lined up later on. to stitch the photos together i used a feature on Photoshop called photomerge, which automatically positioned all the photos together after I selected the ones that I wanted. I had to than change the image size so that it was a square and rotate it 180degress so that it was upside down. and i had to rotate it slightly so that the edges on either side lined up. i then used the polar coordinates filter which distorted it into the planet shape. to finish it off i did some touching up and adjustments to make it look a little cleaner. Below i have the test that i did it is very rough since i didn't want to spend too much time on it. it was just to see what i would have to do in order to get the best results. because i had my camera on auto the exposure changed for every shot and they didn't fit together well.
These are all the images I took
Photoshop was able to use photomerge and put all the images together
The polar coordinates filter made it into a planet shape
Here are some examples of ones that I found online
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