New Forest Observatories "Little Planet"

[cybermystic]

For some reason I was sitting at the computer typing in goodness knows what when it suddenly hit me how to take those "Little Planet" pictures. So I went outside and tried to get the New Forest Observatories in a "Little Planet" setting. Here's the result:


NFO "Little Planet" by cybermystic, on Flickr

Greg

[DaveS]

Nice one Greg

It looks a bit like the British Gas advert

Dave

[Rob_Jn]

I like that Greg (and the blue skies) ...I have to ask, how did you do it?

Rob

[PAB1964]

Nice one Greg

It looks a bit like the British Gas advert

Dave

I agree Dave

Now the tricky bit.

Greg- How did you do it?

[Roger]

Yes i would like to know as well .

[spacemouses]

I would like to know as well.
(If I am not mistaken- I think there is one of your images used in an article in the May issue of AN).

David

[Dennis]

camera on a stick, reflection in a chrome ball?

Dennis

[cybermystic]

A slightly different approach gives a slightly better result


NFO "Little Planet" by cybermystic, on Flickr

Greg

[GlassWalker]

Looks great :)

I had a play with this in the distant past and failed badly. From memory you need to take a 360 degree (cylindrical) panorama, which then gets transformed by a function in photoshop (or similar elsewhere) to make the planet.

[Dennis]

looks like something from the Witches of Eastwick. Where's Susan?

Dennis

[PAB1964]

I've just found out how to do this, if any one is interested.

http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/ ... a-planets/