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Since this panoramic contest started, I figured I would probably submit another mini planet, and here it is

This was shot in Ann Arbor Michigan, at a place known as "Bloody Corners" due to the bright red pillar that you can see here. So I shot a 360 degree horizontal panoramic, going about 80 degrees vertical. Then I did some Photoshop work to turn it into a mini planet.

I'm sure you've all have seen these before, but my first mini planet was done back in 2004, which is about 2 years before I can see any other type of mini planet on the internet. Did I come up with this on my own? I don't really know. But I like to think I did

Anyway, this shot is rather cool, to me. I like the buildings in here, and that's a pretty hard thing to do with these mini planets. I spent a good 20 hours or so (which is about twice as long as normal), adjusting this to look right. The Bloody Corners building was rather hard to get right, since the panorama image wasn't quite aligned right. But I managed to massage this to not have any breaks or hard edges, and to look pretty uniform.

So what do you guys think? I always appreciate any comments and critiques about these types of images, since I like to do them a lot

For anyone wanting to know how to do this, you can see a tutorial here.

And here is a video tutorial I made showing how to make these

You can see more of these here

Description
Since this panoramic contest started, I figured I would probably submit another mini planet, and here it is

This was shot in Ann Arbor Michigan, at a place known as "Bloody Corners" due to the bright red pillar that you can see here. So I shot a 360 degree horizontal panoramic, going about 80 degrees vertical. Then I did some Photoshop work to turn it into a mini planet.

I'm sure you've all have seen these before, but my first mini planet was done back in 2004, which is about 2 years before I can see any other type of mini planet on the internet. Did I come up with this on my own? I don't really know. But I like to think I did

Anyway, this shot is rather cool, to me. I like the buildings in here, and that's a pretty hard thing to do with these mini planets. I spent a good 20 hours or so (which is about twice as long as normal), adjusting this to look right. The Bloody Corners building was rather hard to get right, since the panorama image wasn't quite aligned right. But I managed to massage this to not have any breaks or hard edges, and to look pretty uniform.

So what do you guys think? I always appreciate any comments and critiques about these types of images, since I like to do them a lot

For anyone wanting to know how to do this, you can see a tutorial here.

And here is a video tutorial I made showing how to make these

You can see more of these here