How to 'create your own planet' style

I saw this amazing picture, and was wondering how it was done. A group of students stand around but with a CS Polar Filter it looks like they were standing on their own little planet. A very neat effect.

Linked in, not mine:
http://www.photojojo.c​om …/164125556_b2ba​8aa3f8.jpg
Credit to: tutorial above from photojojo.com (no personal credit was given)

I found this tutorial, it is missing a few important facts. For your final image to be "planet" like you have to:

• Have to have a nice panoramic composed already.
  
• Each shot/combination of shots must include a uniform sky or ground that you can convert into the "planet". If you just shot at eye level you may not get the ground or sky depending on your focal length.
  
• The height of the panoramic is the key, width is important as well but not as much as height.
  
• To get the inner (last picture of the tutorial) don't do the 180 rotate.
  
• Make sure you lock exposure. Manual focus may not be a bad idea either.

I really like this effect. You can get some great results with the right photograph. Here are a few more on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com …l/sets/72157594​279945875/

Mike

I wrote an action to do this.

I'm pretty sure I posted it on here too.

But that was ages ago.

Where is it then?

Mike-DT6 wrote in post #5908037
Where is it then?

I thought I posted it, I know I made an action though (assuming the picture is setup correctly), it does the rest of the work.

I'll post it up when I get home (if my memory doesn't fail me (again)).

Mike-DT6 wrote in post #5907983
I really like this effect. You can get some great results with the right photograph. Here are a few more on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com …l/sets/72157594​279945875/

Mike

Oh that's a great link, thanks. I wish people would post the original pictures that they used as well. I think the setup is the key for a successful result.


EDIT: I take that back, a lot of the images on this link do provide the originals. Thanks again mike!

There's a video tutorial here - link

Decent tut and a funny guy! Can't wait to try my hand at this sometime

I found it :


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I haven't used it in a while (worked great when I did use it though), I think the only requirement of this action is that the picture is wider than it is higher (i.e. a panorama).

nw85887 wrote in post #5931360
I found it :


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I haven't used it in a while (worked great when I did use it though), I think the only requirement of this action is that the picture is wider than it is higher (i.e. a panorama).

Thank you for the action. Strange, all of the online guides say to make sure that the Height and the width are the same, otherwise transform the height to match.

aram535 wrote in post #5933074
Thank you for the action. Strange, all of the online guides say to make sure that the Height and the width are the same, otherwise transform the height to match.

I think my action handles this step for you.

Like I said, I haven't used it in a while.

There's definitely a tutorial out there somewhere 'cos I followed it to create this one some time ago.

Sorarse wrote in post #5940822
There's definitely a tutorial out there somewhere 'cos I followed it to create this one some time ago.

Here is the one I followed and used as a guideline to create the aforeposted action :

http://www.dirkpaessle​r.com …-create-your-own-planets/

Sorarse wrote in post #5940822
There's definitely a tutorial out there somewhere 'cos I followed it to create this one some time ago.

This is fantastic! I love the odd shapes and the perfect size. Do you happen to have the original at hand?

nw85887 wrote in post #5931360
I found it :


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I haven't used it in a while (worked great when I did use it though), I think the only requirement of this action is that the picture is wider than it is higher (i.e. a panorama).

Very useful, thanks a tooooon. Takes care of everything for you, all I did was open an existing panoramic and hit play, then set the height=width and it was done.

aram535 wrote in post #5944627
This is fantastic! I love the odd shapes and the perfect size. Do you happen to have the original at hand?

It was a while ago, and I have several similar images all taken at the same time from the same vantage point, but I believe it was this one.

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