Fishy Eye

[Simon.fairclough]

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Can you guess how this shot was made?
And no I wasn't hanging by my feet from a hot airballoon.

[Simon.fairclough]

Ok got this technique out of a magazine. Easy to do too.
Shoot a 360 degree pano make sure the ends match.
then in PSE (I have 6 but I think same in 4/5) rotate 180, then resize your image to a square. You have to unclick constrain proportions. I used 4,000x4,000 pixels, don't make it too big your PC will not have enough ram.
Then go to filter-distort-polar coordinates. Click rectangular to polar then hit OK. Done.
Might need a bit of tidying up. I then cut a circle out of the square image and made the outside of it black. fish-eye???

[Pius]

Well done Simon. Would make nice CD-covers.
Cheers..Pius

[Simon.fairclough]

Thanks Pius, hadn't thought about a cd cover.

[Siegfried]

Simon

Its strange, like Pius says, it will make a nice cd cover. On the other hand it could be very interesting if you practiced in the technique and when you do specific shoots...

Thanks for sharing

Siegfried

[Simon.fairclough]

I was already going to that location and the scene looked right for this type of treatment. 7 shots, camera on manual and held vertical, 18mm lens.
The trick I use when shooting a pano handheld is I walk around my camera bag.