Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys! I'm back and I wanted to talk to you about composite images and panoramas. Most of us use the app or thing on our phones to take panoramas, where you just move your camera sideways. But do you know what its doing to make the picture? Well, its taking multiple pictures in a row and layering them into one image. This is a composite image. A composite image is an image that is created by layering and combining several different photos. You may be wondering "Why do we have to have several pictures to make this kind of image? Isn't one picture enough?" One image is not enough and that is because when you take multiple pictures, it creates an image that portrays a scene that the average camera can not capture. It is a larger view of the subject. So basically, the point of composite image is to make a wide view, larger than life scene. Thats cool right? Much better than a regular picture.

In class, we are making two different types of panoramas. Polar and spherical- and they may look similar but they are different. If you can tell from my examples, the polar panorama looks like a tiny world. Like everything is being dragged outward. But the spherical looks like its a crystal ball, like everything is being dragged into the center. They will both look very similar, but will mean and portray different things. And my pictures have captions so you can tell the difference if you don't understand.

When we make our worlds, the organic outcome is a world or ball type thing with a harsh line from where the edges of the panorama meet. So, we have to use the stamp tool that can be found in the tool bar in Photoshop. We have to cover that line and make it look natural, like there was never a line before. Also, there is a ring of white on the spherical image and a ring of black in the polar image that make it look convincing and realistic. It makes it seem like there was nothing artificial around it or, for the polar, it looks like the black part is space or something like that. We must make it look as real as possible for the best outcome!