Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hello so we recently completed our photomontages inspired by David Hockney and we were introduced to a new art called polar and spherical imagery. I am pretty excited about this project because I always thought they were pretty cool and have always wanted to try to create one in photoshop.

Alright, so composition images are basically multiple photos in one. For example, if add a park bench in the middle of the ocean. These can be created through editing software such as photoshop. Another example of composite imagery is cloning, this is when you take one base image then images of yourself or something in multiple places then you erase  the background from each image and stack the images on one another. An example of this would be if you were playing a board game then edited photos to make it look like you were playing against yourself. Composite imagery is used to create images that are confusing or cool looking. Personally, I like how composite images look because they look interesting to me and other people who see them.


For this project we will be creating two different types of images one will be polar panoramas and the other one will be spherical panoramas. These two types of images both look circular when completed but the insides look very different. These two types of images also both need to include the sky in order for them to look interesting. They both also need be outdoors in order for them look like a real world. The difference between them is that polar panoramas look like little tiny worlds kinda like how a photo of the earth would look like. Polar panoramas also need to have a sky all around them, while spherical panoramas don't need to.

The polar panoramas we have created are also known as tiny worlds. These tiny worlds are supposed to be surreal, I mean they are TINY worlds!. The process to create these worlds is pretty simple until it comes time to blend the photos together to look somewhat real. Since these photos are from a panorama, the two ends won't perfectly blend so there's always a line where the two ends meet. Some methods to remove this line include using the clone tool to repeat colors throughout the image. Another trick to do is to rotate the image so the viewers eyes don't go straight to the spot you blended so they don't notice it as much. And lastly, you can take the images a certain way so that it will be easier to blend them. You can do this by having not as much things in the foreground of the last images, for example, trees, bushes, and fences. You can do this by taking good images in your photo sessions.