What's due Monday - shots for the Little Planet

As of Wednesday the 20th, you should have already successfully assembled no less than 2 panoramas. One which should be 360 degrees around.

Make sure you accomplish this before taking the next set of images due Monday. You need to take images to create a 360x180 (equirectangular) panorama. In simple terms, you need to take photos covering every direction. This will require three 'rows' of images. Use you widest angle setting of your lens. One with the camera level (use your camera in the vertical orientation for all these shots), one with it tilted up as much as possible while still insuring at least 20% overlap with the tops of the first row. Then same thing but with the camera facing down. It is likely that you will need 10 ish images per row. Maybe more, maybe less. Then, move your tripod and take a shot of the ground where the tripod was and take a shot of the sky above the tripod. Of course, you have to keep the same focus and exposure for all of the shots. 

We will edit these and assemble them in to a 360x180 panorama on Monday. I will then show you how  to change the projection to create a Little Planet image.

This project is deciptively  hard. Take great care when shooting these images or you will find that you have to re-shoot them or spend lots of time fighting with them on the computer. 

Meanwhile, you should also be continuing your research and shooting for the Urban Nature project.