"Planet" panoramas of Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

I took my camera out yesterday to try and get a few shots and came back with these 360 degree panoramas that I stitched in Hugin. The first showing the war memorial whilst the second was taken from equal 45 degree points around it.

Those are AWESOME! Mind-boggling.

very cool - love the first one.

awesome

Great - had me thinking for a couple of seconds!

Those are pretty cool and yet kind of disturbing, in an Alice and Wonderland kind of way.

This image makes me wonder, is the world flat or round?

dig-it-al wrote in post #7482988
This image makes me wonder, is the world flat or round?

I thought of the same thing when I looked at the first one.
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Great job on the photos.

Looks like an oversized, novelty knife piercing a giant melon!

@ GlobexCo!

Glad you like them guys.

Very cool. Fun to look at

Awesome! Would love to know how you did it.

It's actually fairly simple.

Start by shooting a 360 degree panorama [you can do it on 180s etc just as long as each end of the panaroma looks similar], try to ensure your shots overlap by around 20-30%. I did these hand held but you'll get better results on a tripod and better still if you have a panoramic head.

Next, stitch them together to create a flat panorama and crop. I used Hugin to do this [freeware] which I prefer, but Canon's Photostitch or Photomerge within Photoshop/Elements should do the job I'd guess.

So far so good, here's where the "weird" stuff starts!

You need to resize your panorama to a square, so click Image>Resize and ensure that Constrain Proportions is unticked. Select the same figure in both height and width boxes [the power of your computer will dictate how big you can make it, I went for 4000 pixels].

Next, rotate the shot by 180 degrees and apply the Polar Coordinates filter found under Filter>Distort.

There's your basic "planet", all that's left is cropping or painting in areas you want removing/filling plus some healing brush work to tidy it up. I then sharpen slightly on a duplicate layer but apply a circular gradient on a layer mask to avoid sharpening the centre as it all gets a bit strange there.

And that's it, simple eh!

Thanks for posting this, you inspired me to give it a try. I found a cool tutorial on how to do this using only Hugin. You can just use the stereo option when stitching it to get the planet look.

I can see I'm going to have a lot of fun with this

They look great! I'm going to have another bash at this myself today