Tiny Planets

On last Summer's trip to Arizona, I took a bunch of 8mm fisheye panorama shots. Was experimenting around yesterday with converting them to "Tiny Planet" polar projections. The two images below are from the Wupatki National Park: the first image is a 28-image HDR taken inside a room in the main pueblo, the second shot is a 4-image shot taken outside the main pueblo (3 story structure in the background).


The polar projection work pretty well with 360-degree panoramas that have a lot of close, tall, structures, like trees, lampposts, skyscrapers, etc. After these experiments, going to take the fisheye out a bunch more this Spring to get some tiny planet source material...