I have a small, cheap (bottom end of the market) sphere camera that takes images that cover the full 360°x180° view: that is, everything all the way round, up and down. I have tried different ways of working with it and using the software that, inevitably, you need to use with such a camera. Here are some of the results.
The first were taken outside in the garden on a fine day. I found it was difficult to get a photo without the sun shining in the lens (causing flare and large bright spots) whilst avoiding the washing on the line, the unattractive garden shed and other items in the way. Eventually I discarded all the photos except one taken inside the greenhouse. Here are different views (‘projections’) from the same image:
A couple of days later I tried taking some photos in our small conservatory. This took a few goes to get thing right but I am quite pleased with the results:
In my next post I will show an ‘interactive’ or ‘VR’ version of this image.