While this was not one of my chosen POW's I still find these types of photos to be extremely interesting and fun to mess around with. Landscapes, and pictures of trees can sometimes be very boring to look at. I really think these types of photos fit very well into "Extended seeing". To achieve these types of photos I downloaded the application "Tiny Planets" for under a buck. You can take any photo or panoramic and create images that look like "miniature planets". It can be really hard to achieve a 360 degree picture and this application allows you to easily achieve this. The way this application achieves this is through something called stereographic projection which maps out a sphere to a flat plane. You can choose at what point you want the image to wrap around and then it gets wrapped around that point.
Polar coordinates allow the image to be wrapped around the focal point on the top center point of the image. You truly have endless opportunities with this application and can create mirrored planets, by taking a panoramic photo and mirror it horizontally. This really changes typical cliche photos into something much more creative. This application is available for both android and iPhone at a very low cost. For both these images, I took cliche pictures of trees, and a landscape. In the black and white picture I wanted the trees to be going into the focal point. In the snowy landscape picture I took a panoramic of the trees in front of my snowy front yard. It was pretty boring to look at and that is why I decided to use this application to give it an entirely new appearance.
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