| Little Planet Version |
Here is the same photo, but I am showing it to you in 4 different ways. The top image is what we call the Little Planet view.
It would help if you had special software to do all these photos. Some Apps exist to help you create pictures similar to these with your phone–just not as consistent and precise as the way I did it with a tripod, fisheye lens, and particular nodal head on the tripod.
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| Photo #2 360º Panoramic gut stretched horizontally |
Photo #2 is the same but extended to a large horizontal photo. Often this is cropped with less sky and ground to give a more strip print. This photo would then be like the inside of a cylinder.
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| Photo #3 Cubed 360º Panoramic |
Photo #3 is the same photo, but instead of how it would appear inside a ball, this is how it would appear inside a box. Again, the first four panels are the sides, then the top and bottom are the last two.
This last one is an interactive 360º panoramic. You can watch it; it will rotate and let you see the 360º cylinder, or you can click on the menu arrows to go up and down or change direction. You can also just put your mouse and, while clicking and holding, drag the image up, down, and sideways to control it yourself.