VERY cool new technique....

[crawdaddio]

....for me. I just learned how to do this.


World in a bubble

 

[Hoppy]

Thats cool. are you going to share the skill or is it a secret?

 

[crawdaddio]

Oh yeah, sorry. This is my first attempt, so I don't really know all the fine tuning. I think this works best with very level city or landscape shots.
Open your image in photoshop.
Scale your image to a square. (Image>image sixe>uncheck "scale styles"and"constrain proportions"> make height and width pixel #s match)
Rotate image 180 degrees
Apply filter>polar coordinates.
Clean up stitch lines by cloning, healing brush, etc...(your choice)

It's perty cool and fun to play around with....

 

[Chiller]

Cool...gotta dig this one.

 

[tekzero]

can u post the original?

 

[omeletteman]

dude that is so cool. I've seen this sort of thing before, but never knew how to do it, so thanks for sharing.

 

[PNA]

really cool...........this is my try at it.

 

[PNA]

this to that above

 

[crawdaddio]

Here's a link to the original:
http://thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52861

I did, however, use the original/unblurred version of this shot.

Thanks everyone!

 

[chakalakasp]

That's pretty cool -- I've never tried that before. I know there's a dude up in Seattle who does cityscapes like this (though not using this exact technique -- I don't know what he does, but his stuff like you're looking at a tiny little planet), and he's been quite successful. I just dug around and found the page of the guy I was thinking of:

http://www.mikegdesign.com/HTML/Spheres.html

I just tried doing it to a shot I had of the U.S. Capitol building. It worked so-so:

 

[SeanL]

this to that above

Hey stop taking pictures of my car! lol

 

[Je-C]

That's some very interesting work, and an intruiging technique! What fun!

 

[skiboarder72]

i feel bad for the guy who has a lambo in NY... he can never drive it haha

 

[Holly]

Very neat.. Love the building one.. Very neat

 

[PNA]

Here's what the front end looks like.......