Planet Houston, Space City

This is a stereogrphic projection of the Houston skyline, taken from the Sabie Street Overpass.

Best viewed as an interactive 360 degree flash movie!

This was taken as a 360 degree equirectangular panorama using a Nodal Ninja panoramic tripod head, and a Tokina 10-17mm lens.

6 photos around @ 60 degrees between shots, plus 1 Zenith & 1 Nadir
Stitched in PTGui Pro 8.2.2
Color/curve/sharpness adjustments in Photoshop

Process used for creating little planet:
- Load Equirectangular image into Photoshop
- Image > Adjust > Size --- match height to width without constraining proportions
- Rotate image 180 degrees
- Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar option selected)

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telwink says:

Here's a more normal crop from the scene. It was a very beautiful night!

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ThinDragon520 says:

Cool beans. A beautiful night indeed.
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

photine says:

Had fun finding the camera tripod shadow in the 360. That is a crazy fun image to interact with.
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telwink says:

HAHA great find, Laurie. I feel like there's *something* I always miss with these things. Which is partly a shame, for how much time I spent getting the tripod out of this particular shot. But on the other hand, it keeps things fun like you said =]
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telwink says:

By the way, can you spot the wedding photographer/setup?
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DanPancamo says:

awesome... i'm going to have to give this a try someday
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I-SEEN-IT says:

Awesome and amazing, well done. Instant Fave !
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

groovehouse says:

Wow. Great shot. Great interactive flash thing too!!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

kinjotx says:

wow interesting! Ditto to the flash~
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

telwink says:

DanPancamo - thanks! You should, they're a lot of fun.

I-SEEN-IT - thanks a lot!!!

Mr. Groovehouse - thank you sir, glad you like it.

kinjo! - thank you!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

jjsala says:

You look like your on top of the world Ben. The 360 is really cool.
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Vickki Lynn says:

your work always seem to amaze me, everytime!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

telwink says:

Thanks jjsala!! Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, even if it happens to be the product of manic episodes :P

Vickki Lynn - thank you soooooo much. That's such a nice comment!!!!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

nip2655 says:

I was going to be like, "Dude, you didn't remove the power line?', but it actually looks kinda cool in the little planet projection.

Nice work, Mr. 360.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

John F Hark says:

Awesome awesome work Ben. You are really outdoing yourself!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

telwink says:

nip2655 - thanks a lot, man! Yeah I thought about removing it, but after I saw it in the stereographic it was too nifty to take out. As for Mr. 360, on the contrary, good sir.

John - Thanks a lot!!!! I don't know about all that - I really appreciate the praise though. It was great just to get out and have another crack at the ol' hobby. Haha, I'm half kidding. I still enjoy it, but I had a month+ there that I wasn't shooting much. This was a fun project to sort of kick it off again (hopefully!)
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

art luvEr says:

You're picture is friggin amazin dudee!!!! holy crap
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

telwink says:

Thanks Ms. art luvEr!!!! =]
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

mlsnp says:

Another amazing pano! I want to come with you sometime and watch you make one of these.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

baldheretic says:

Very nice work. I was considering getting a nodal ninja for shots like thise. We need to get together and talk shop sometime.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

telwink says:

Mark - we'll have to do that some time!

baldheretic - Thanks a lot! Yeah man it's a great piece of equipment, especially if you already own a fisheye. They are great for all kinds of creative work, not just 360s. A lot of my standard panoramas are shot with it. I appreciate the comments/compliments this evening!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Susan Giannantonio says:

you need to enter this in some art competitions, including those for self portraits. It is extremely creative.
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

nbklx17 (Sandy) says:

Wowie, wow wow!
I know I'm gushing, but this is freaking amazing! ...and beautiful!
Can you tell I love it? ;-)
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

matt.harding says:

Great work!
Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

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