Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hello internet! How are you today? I hope

your are doing well. I have a very, very, important question for you. And believe me, it is very important. What is your favorite band? Oh, wait, let me rephrase that: bands (because honestly, is it even possible to have just one?). My top three are: Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, and The Downtown Fiction :). If you would like, comment yours down below. The project we've been working on for the past two weeks or so is Spherical Panoramas.
What is a Spherical Panorama? A Spherical Panorama is a panoramic composite image that has been formed into a circle. To construct our Spherical Panoramas, my class used Adobe Photoshop. We did this project in 6th grade as well so if you would like to see the first ones I did, click here.


What is a composite image and why would it be better that just using a single picture? A composite image is a image made up of several other pictures, most commonly in the form of a panorama. Do you have a mobile phone that allows you to take panoramic photos? Well, it isn't in fact taking just one picture. It is taking multiple pictures and stitching them together to look like a single image. We do a similar process in Photoshop, except we take individual pictures of the landscape around us and stitch use photomerge in Photoshop to stitch them together. The reason why a composite image is better to use than a single picture when creating a Spherical Panorama is because you can't capture a whole landscape in one photo, which is what you need to do in order to create a Spherical Panorama.


In our project, we did two types of Spherical Panoramas. Two were called Polar, and the other two were called Sphere. The difference between the Polar and Sphere Panoramas were the Polar ones resembled planets because the ground of the landscape is located in the center with the sky around it, and the Sphere ones have the ground in a circle around the sky which is located in the image's center. They take mostly the same steps to create in Photoshop and look really cool when finished.

It takes a lot of thought and care to make your tiny worlds convincing. When you take you pictures to create the panorama, you have to make sure that you can see the ground in every shot and that where you pictures start and end in the landscape look similar enough to piece together in Photoshop. You also have to keep your horizon like fairly straight throughout your whole panorama. Also when you go to edit your photos, make sure that every photo has similar levels of exposure, color balance, brightness, etc. When you go to create your final product in Photoshop, be sure to adjust the horizon line so it is near to perfect and when you filter the panorama into your Spherical Panorama, take lots of time covering that line where the two sides came together.





Well I hope you all like this post and I will be sure to post again soon :) Bye bye...