50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography

awesome. They look amazing

Wow Oliver you are right, its just amazing!!

Truly amazing

Wow that’s amazing. I’ve always wondered what genuinely creative effects you could get with the “Polar Coordinates” filter. Thanks for a great post!

I did this ages back:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/irishmark23/GFX/topoworld.jpg?t=1246354430

The shot is of my Bro at a service station on the way up to Glasgow.

Amazing pictures!

Those are absolutely amazing – I love them. They remind me of that new Mario game where he’s landing on all the planets. If they were a better shape I’d be using them as my desktop background. Any chance of some wallpapers?

there is even the little prince world

These are all very cool. Thanks a lot!

wow, I want to know how to do that!

Wow, these are awesome! I especially like the city-scape ones with bright lights… amazing effects

very nice, just like the little prince – similar little planets

Some results are very good.

Wow. How do people come up with this stuff?

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These are all amazing,
really cool use of the polar panorama photography
nice post…
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INCREDIBLE!

Wow! Cool Article! by the way… GREAT website!!! Congratulations!!!

Fantastic!

Amazing work! thanks for putting these together and sharing !

Here’s my first try at such a panorama: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucky0/3675492957

What do you think?

I like the top, but at the bottom it gets a bit blurry…

I like it

Anybody got a link to a tutorial on accomplishing this?

@DJ: It’s on the intro to this post.

Where do you find these things? This blog is a contant source of inspiration and variation. I love the examples with the paved sidewalks and mosaics in the foreground.

Thanks for the kind comments. I’m glad that everyone’s enjoying the pics!

This was my first attempt at creating one of these. It’s a bit rough.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/muzbot/3079165242/

I like it.

I’ll google how to make these and try and come up with something. I’m also looking to learn how to photograph smoke and things like that a bit better.

Cool

Amazing!

Wow… they are so surreal. Stunning idea

For those with better things to spend their money on, the same functionality can be found in Gimp (2.6.6) under Filters/Distorts/Polar Coordinates.

I love the photos. Thanks for sharing the tutorials.

heres mine !
http://b-82.deviantart.com/art/Notes-en-Bulles-planet-127315010

beatiful images. thank you

A simple way to create a little planet projection is to use the krpano flash viewer. I have used this flash player on Panogio.com.

Take a look at the equirectangular panorama images here http://bit.ly/lXaRt
Beneath the image on the left side of spherical panoramas there is a small link called “little planet” for viewing the panorama image as a planet.

You can upload your own panoramas to Panogio http://bit.ly/rRkOh and look at them as planets! Here are my panoramas! http://www.panogio.com/user/ted

marvelous work..hats off to such a creative and imaginary work

Great Use of effects, light, color, mood, and tone. You did really good work on those very amazing to look at! Thanks

wow really neat gonna have fun with that tonight

These are really nice, creative photographs

Actually they ain’t that easy to do, if you want to do it properly – and using polar coordinates isn’t the proper way as you get horrible distortions in the middle and on the edges. You should have an equirectangular panorama covering 360×180 degrees and then change the projection. But the hardest part is to get that panorama, having a panoramic tripod head is really usefull. I’ve done some experiments few years ago, mainly shot from hand with wideangle lens: http://don.vn.cz/photos/planets/

Wow! Great inspiration! I really like the effect! #7 is really, really good.

Well, I got distracted and made my own just now! http://www.flickr.com/photos/smileysimm/3681171015/

Great collection!

Wow these are great. How were they made? I think a tutorial or 2 is in order.

The tutorial link is at the top.

I think I would like to try this. I have seen this before and I thought a special wide angle lens was used. Thank you for the tutorial.

woah baby.. im feeling real inspired right about now. :]

wow these are all incredible.
hopes to see tutorial soon.

These are great!

Amazing, these are the best though:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/1450046162/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heiwa4126/2685589384/sizes/l/in/set-72157601616772815/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heiwa4126/1183357702/sizes/l/in/set-72157601616772815/

wow… some radical photography there by the way… absolutely brilliant…
fantastic… : )

Most of these are crap, sorry. I only found about 5% of it aesthetically pleasing. Yes, I am difficult to please.

I looked at your shots. frankly… they are way better than any of these here. The majority of the pictures shown in this blog seem distorted, as if someone just went in an image editing/manipulation application and applied an effect.

I agree with them below(or above) me. Your photos look much better because the group hasn’t been distorted terribly. If you happen to read this comment, could you possibly post a quick how to, a little more in depth that your comment above has? I’m quite intrigued by your shots and would like to create my own

Being difficult to please is not an attribute.

Fascinating post – thanks for sharing!

Simply amazing visuals.
It’s always a pleasure to see the world in a different way.

What a crazy arse effect!

Incredible pics.

Here’s mine:
http://www.szabelski.net/picture.php?/310/category/inne

I made this

http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?entry=471529&display=photoshop

for a contest in the Worth1000 site.
Hope you enjoy.

Amazing photo editing

thanks it’s so easy

Awesome examples.

Thanks 4 every thing

these are my first attempts some years back
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/472905592_6efc8860a8_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/427276895_c0425f73fe_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2222/1811307706_2548b25da9_b.jpg

these are my first attempts some years back
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldstein/472905592/in/set-72157600009897868
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldstein/427276895/in/set-72157600009897868
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldstein/1811307706/in/set-72157600009897868
[edit: non-direct flickr pages]

Your posts would be way better if shorter and more focused. Half of these are half-assed attempts, not anything near “dazzling”.

absolutely amazing

Beautiful photography!! Thanks for sharing!!

Here’s another, of a lobster bake on a Maine island:

http://jimdugan.com/pixelpost/index.php?showimage=199

Very interesting project. I’d never seen these polar panoramic photos before. I like them a lot, though get a slight sense of vertigo if I look at them too long!

I have shot a few of these with with a 4×5 camera. They are a lot of fun though there are some much better ways in doing them.

Mine can be seen on my website at http://www.lightwriterstudios.net

Good work, I especially like the inclusion of good ol’ NMC hahhaaha wasn’t expecting to stumble upon that.
TC REPRESENT!

Wow.. Those are really nice. Huge imagination. I like the football field one myself…

Wow. These are amazing.. Thanks for sharing. Great collection of photographs. I would love to see how these would look enlarged on Canvas. At http://www.canvaspop.com we have created a lot of canvas enlargements of traditional panoramic photos but I think these would look fantastic!

These are sweet! I love photos like this. Been meaning to take a stab at one of my own

very nice,tnx 4 share…

Awesome photography

Woah! These are all great shots.

Absolutely brilliant, no need to take boring pics anymore!!

These are fantastic. I’m about to go make some of these…

wow that’s great

When I made my photographs the process was still a bit of a mystery. Stereographic projections were being done by a handful of artists at the time, and most of them were done using expensive panoramic camera equipment. most of the talk about here about distortions come from the problem of shooting this technique on a tripod. It is almost impossible to get the absolute center of the images without getting the tripod in the shot. This is why it is typical to see a pinching distortions in the center of the images. Distortion on the outer edges is an algorithm problem. If you are using a stitching technique, the parts that produce the outer edges of the image are distorted because there is less data to work with. The technique I used was to create a panorama from several overlapping images which would later be stitched with photo-editing software. From there I would use a stereoscopic plugin for photoshop and complete the photos. Thank you for featuring some of my work, it is good to see others doing it as well!

Wow really nice and amazing [^___^]/

Great

Ahhh! the one with the eiffel tower is a gem of a view thanks for this.