Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hi everyone! This week in GT we are focusing on both Polar and Spherical images. These type of images are a bunch of pictures all combined together to make a spherical outlook, its sorta like a tiny world. Composite images are a few or more images combined together, the reason why people create these composite images are to give the picture a very unique and interesting touch to it, instead of a normal and bland picture. Composite photos are also made to go beyond and push the normal limitations of a camera. Some composite images are photo montages or polar and spherical panoramas.

The difference between a polar and a spherical panorama is that a polar pano, is sort of a tiny world. The polar has a circle in the middle, following with either black or white in the background. With a 180 image rotation, just to give it a more worldly effect. For a spherical panorama, it looks more like a sphere. Plus, a spherical panorama does not have the 180 image rotation as the polar panorama will have. The Spherical Panorama looks more like a drop of water instead of a world. However, both Polar and Spherical Panos have a horizon line in them, this is so it is easier and a bit more nicer when it is turned into a sphere or a world.

I believe that the smudge and clone tool makes my tiny worlds convincing because it is able to blur and color over the problems and the more sketchy parts of my panoramas, and replace them with something else in the photo. Such as clouds,the sky, even the ground. Plus, I also added a little rotation to my panoramas, it is normal that there is a line straight down through a panorama. The rotation helps hide the line better, since it is usually found straight through the middle. The line is a empty area in the panorama, since it ends with a different photo, not the photo it started with. (Its not a full circle)