Comments on: ‘Little Planet’ Panoramic Photography

By: Josh Sommers

Josh Sommers — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:51:09 +0000

Hi Everyone,

These images are from my flickr stream. To answer all of your questions:

These are called stereographic projections. To create these types of images first I create what is called an equirectangular panorama, which is a panorama that covers the entire visible sphere, so 360×180. With my 16mm lens on a 5dmkii it takes around 17 shots to get everything. Then those individual shots are stitched together using panorama software. I usually use the opensource program Hugin for this, but sometimes also use PtGui. Once the panorama is stitched, it can be reprojected into different kinds of projections, such as stereographic. This can be done with Hugin, or a plugin for Photoshop called Flexify.

Hope this answers your questions.

Cheers,
Josh

By: Mitchell Edwards

Mitchell Edwards — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:56:16 +0000

wow! how did you take these are are realy cool?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:41:05 +0000

Thank you very much Terje! I will try to get more of this for you and other readers of Chill Out Point

By: terje

terje — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:35:56 +0000

I wanted to say that your pictures are really fascinating! I got onto them just randomly searching for an old animation, but i am very glad i found these!

By: seo

seo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:44:56 +0000

These look really good. I like the concept of turning favorite pics into planets. Make great abstract artwork on the walls and maybe an unusual gift for people. There are a bunch of effects that are fun to play around with in photo editing software. If it interests you it can keep you occupied for hours. That can be a good or bad thing depending on what you should have been doing while playing with your favorite photography. I love the digital camera era.

By: littleoddme

littleoddme — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:11:51 +0000

I make these sorts of images by resizing a panorama to square, flipping it and using the Polar Co-ordinates effect. However, my images squish in to a central point, they don’t have all this great detail in the center. Anyone know how that was achieved?

By: Dejanseo

Dejanseo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:27:07 +0000

Absolutely awesome. I want this lens!

By: dragonic

dragonic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:12:31 +0000

i’d go to the nicasio hill, walking bridge, redwood and other buatiful nature ridden ones except for the tick one – it scares me!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:10:57 +0000

Correction: it looks like everyone is calling these “stereographic projections”.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:48:53 +0000

Matt: I don’t know what was used fo these, but I know it can be done with Photoshop. I suspect Paint Shop Pro and many other programs have the same feature. The generic term for it is “Rectangular to Polar conversion”.