Phenomenal Planet Photography
Planet (Stereographic Projections) Photography is simply crazy and fun! The technique is not only all about skilful digital manipulations, there are a few really good programs that can help you out there, but the raw photography side is very technical. The use of wide angle lenses help to overcome the need for multiple photographs to get the entire scene, but then there is the mapping of your photographs to ensure that you capture all of the surroundings and not to later find a gap in your equirectangular panorama. However, you can avoid the stitching altogether by making do with a single photo and stretch it around in a circle!
Please have a deeper look into this mind twisting technique by clicking on any photograph – this will show you the artists Flickr page!
As you might have noticed a very clever Frenchmen ‘Alexandre’ (aka Gadl) is behind the majority of these photographs and I hope you pay him a visit for more of his masterpieces!
If you’d like to know more about this technique or want more inspiration please follow the links:
Photographing Equirectangular Panoramas and Editing!
How to make a Globe/Planet photo manipulation in GIMP
Photoguides.com Planet Manipulation Video Photoshop Tutorial:
Thank you to all the photographers that allow their photographs to be freely shared!
All Photographs shown here are © Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike!
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Nice collection, there are a few planets I haven’t seen before. And thanks for including one of my planets in the list.
But most of the planets here are stereographic projections of a equirectangular panorama. And the tutorials are showing polar transformations. In Gadls descripton for his Wee planets set he describes the difference.
Hi Klaus,
Yeah, I should add a few more links for this, also thank you for your inspirational photography!
Dang! That’s pretty impressive. Thanks for sharing… makes me want to play some MG2.
Thanks for sharing!
Michael: Your work is breathtaking…such clarity and composition. It’s just a joy to see what you can do.
If you get a chance visit an old man’s ite at
Center Line Images and leave a comment or suggestion. Again, spectacular imagery. Dan
Thanks Dan, unfortunately I have only one photograph in this great collection! I agree though, these photographs are breathtaking!
Great work.
Amazing pictures.
Best of show for abstract/reality distortion; really original stuff. Thanx for sharing.
Really great photos. Awesome…
Great great great photos.
1 word: AWESOME
Thanks for sharing =)
Does this pictures was taken by an alien, or by a celtic alien eye camera persona?
Fantastic awesome photographs this is now what I call photographic art.
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awesome post – tons of great examples!
if anyone out there is interested I have a tutorial on my site that shows how to make these