Polar Panoramas

These are my two Polar Panoramas. First, I researched the process of creating a Polar Panorama before choosing a good location. Similar to a spherical panorama, students took at least 10 photos moving from left to right all vertically oriented with a 10-15% overlap. After using the PhotoMerge in Photoshop and resizing to a square image, the next step was rotating the image 180 degrees before applying the Polar Coordinates filter.

Then participated in a portrait photography session to mimic the feeling of being on top of the world. After editing the portrait photos, I used the Quick Selection Tool to cut out the background, refine the edges and resize the layer to fit my 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 make it a little more realistic as a shadow.