Interesting photography technique - mini planets

Here’s a collection of cool pics…

…and a bunch more here on Flickr…

…along with this explanation of how they’re done:

vega - no secret, as jung said, it is a re-projection of an full 360° equirectangular pano, i use a photoshop plugin called flexify to do the trick, although there are many other ways, helmut dersch’s pano-tools, etc -

this original composite pano was stitched from 8 10.5mm FF fisheye shots, but a non fisheye could have been used as well…

and a simple tutorial here - www.dirkpaessler.com/blog/index.php/photographers-tools/2… although this does not give quite the same results as starting with a full equirectangular image…

sam

Thanks to Ryan at Amnesia for putting me on to this.