Planet Golden Gate

Golden Gate Bridge, stereographic projection, by request from Pat's Pics. I have a few other vantage points that I am working on, one from the other side of the bay, but I think this one was the best vantage point.

I was hoping to get it from this vantage point: www.flickr.com/photos/20638544@N00/63677359/ but the tide was in and that beach was rocky cliffs today.

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frasto says:

great creation !
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

robokow says:

supernice!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

_remo says:

Hihi - good work!

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

bbjee says:

I SAW YOU FIRST!

Very creative
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Igor Luiz [deleted] says:

amaze
how do you make this my friend ?
wow
lovely
congratulations
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mavnjess says:

wow
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Bill Brown says:

Your work is extremely inspiring!!! Thank you so much for sharing your results and knowledge!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

@Igor - This is a stereographic projection of an equirectangular panorama. 17 shots (times 3 exposures) stitched together with hugin, tone mapped with Photomatix and then reprojected to stereographic with Hugin. Final touch ups in Photoshop.

@Bill Brown - thanks, and it is my pleasure.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Patrick Hoff says:

Again it looks fantastic. So thanks for taking the effort. I think you made it even better with these colors! I think the example of the other standpoint will also look great!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Linda Cronin says:

You've done it again.
Great.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

♥loveberries says:

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

zoe J says:

Have you seen this guy's photos:
flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/
?
If not, go check'em out FAST.
This is obviously great.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

Zoe J: Yes Sebprzd is a flickr friend of mine. I have learned a lot from him in the past few months, from panoramas to the droste effect he has been a big inspiration to me.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

schwede123 says:

Wow! Gorgeous.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Andrew C Wallace says:

Stunning, wonderful, creative and technically brilliant.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

aberdidi says:

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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

aberdidi says:

Great shot!! I added it to the P1F1 discussion thread www.flickr.com/groups/p1f1/discuss/7215759433 0235305/
Hope you don't mind.
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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Heaven`s Gate (John) says:

very creative
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Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Aníbal Pées Labory says:

Awesone
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

chaidealo says:

Excellent!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

jks2007 says:

Beautiful
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

oatmeal2000 says:

So great!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

StaraLea says:

Holy smokes...that's awesome!!!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

sipstar says:

VERY cool :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

JJ Wade says:

awesome :)
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Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Ryan Moreno [deleted] says:

sik A
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

I.am.Dat says:

great!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Artemenko.org says:

I love this. Great pic!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

ray fischer says:

I want to try this!
Ray
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

Ray- Go for it! It's a ton of fun. Let me know if you need any pointers.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

thatstickerguy says:

AWESOME JOB! Looks very complicated.
Please post in:
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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

coyrooster says:

At the moment there are 100,702 photos tagged "golden gate bridge" on Flickr search ~~ the number never stops growing ~~ and this is where I found your fabulous planet. It's GOT to be among the finest renditions of this orange (not golden) bridge ever to appear in Flickrdom. Terrific work.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

Thanks coyrooster!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Fernanda_Ferreira says:

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Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

sashakasha says:

Pleasure to be #90 who calls this insightful image a favorite!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

ZekaG says:

Great job. I like it.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

caljuggler says:

love it.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

caljuggler says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Extreme California, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group along with any other photos you may have of california.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

kubante says:

i had missed this one!!! hihi fantastic
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

finbref says:

I tried to do the same - shot 20 photos, stichted them with hugin (panorama projection) and then I wanted to create this "planet" by applying some "steorgraphic" projection. But how?!
Do you know any detailed tutorial out there?
Your work is terrific!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

Finbref- If you shot a full 360 degree panorama, then the easiest way to create a stereographic projection is to use the Flexify plugin for Photoshop. It is very self explanatory with flexify.

However you can also do it with hugin, provided you stitched a full 360x180 degree equirectangular panorama. If so, once you have stitched it, just load that single image into hugin and choose equirectangular as the lens type and 360 as the FOV, then choose Stereographic as the projection type and rotate the image 90 degrees on the Y axis (I think it is the Y axis, it's been a while for me). That is all there is to it.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

finbref says:

Wow, thank you very much for this fast asnwer. I will try this immediately (the hugin stuff, I do not have photoshop).... Up to now I made just 20 photos around me (360°), but not where my feet were standing. I'll catch this up later and post my results.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

jpetralia says:

Very, very awesome. I've done a few like this before (not of San Francisco), but I've never had this much success.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Josh Sommers says:

jpetralia- thanks! The most important aspect to "success" with these (because success is a relative term after all) in my opinion is having a panoramic tripod head and a wide angle lens.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

enwiie says:

awesome work. like this

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JunJie427 says:

NICE!!!!!!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Amrahhh.. [deleted] says:

wow, really spectacular!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

pedro vidigal says:

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JK Harris says:

Very cool, nice work
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

sinbatao says:

great creation ! 非常好
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

mje13 says:

WOW! That is pretty cool.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

schimkent says:

You sure nailed that one! Excellent Panorama planet!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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