These are my two Polar Panorama examples. First I researched the process of creating a Polar Panorama before choosing a good location with an interesting horizon line. Similar to a spherical panorama, I took at least 10 photos moving from left to right all vertically oriented with a 10-15% overlap. After using the PhotoMerge plugin in Photoshop and resizing to a square image, the next step is rotating the image 180 degrees before applying the Polar Coordinates filter under the distort menu.
Then participated in a portrait photography session to mimic the feeling of being on top of the world. After editing the portrait photos, students used the Quick Selection Tool to cut out the background, refine the edges and resize the layer to fit their polar panorama perfectly. The last step was creating a shadow effect by copying, inverting and warping their portrait layer, decreasing the exposure to pure black and adjusting the opacity to around 40%
Your Polar Panoramas look great! The colors are really bright!
ReplyDeleteThe Panoramas look like they were done well with patience.
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