Tiny Spherical Worlds

Composite images are made to go beyond the capability of a camera. Taking multiple images and putting them together to make one composite image is something that you can not do with just one picture. With composite images you have to take time to edit them. You also have to take time to take multiple pictures. This is more of a creative way of showing an image. With composite images, I like how things look a little more surreal I guess.

Our latest project in GT is to create spherical panoramas and polar panoramas. These panoramas are may seem similar, which they are, but they are not exactly the same. They both make it seem like we live in a tiny world. In a polar panorama, it looks like a small planet surrounded by sky. In a spherical panorama, you see the sky in the center of the image and the land surrounding it. Its as if you were looking up to the sky as an ant. The spherical world really interests me. I love how it just shows a different point of view as if you're tiny looking up to the huge world that is actually pretty small.
If I were to spend hours and hours of my time to make these tiny spherical worlds, I think I could make it looks convincing. I mean, if I covered up the line perfectly and shaded and did a bunch of things to make it look realistic, then I think it would be convincing. When I added my little person to my worlds, I added a shadow of course. That was one of the requirements, I believe but thats one thing we all did to make the image look a little more realistic. Another thing we did was play around with the angle of my little person. I also put the person a position so it looks like they are standing on land and not floating on water or something. If it were a spherical, then I would probably put water on the bottom half of it and not the top so it doesn't look like theres water floating or something.