{"id":10972,"date":"2026-06-26T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:56:18","slug":"making-sphere-ball-abstract-images-from-simple-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10972","title":{"rendered":"Making sphere\/ball abstract images from simple subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a visit to an open air museum that had vintage vehicles I took some photos of headlamps and played around with these images using the ‘sphereising’ technique I have developed. It does give some strange effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First is a headlamp from a vintage bus with the original on the left and a ‘squared’ version on the right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vintage bus headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A squared version of the headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Next I show two sphere\/ball version of the original image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1st sphere\/ball version of the headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2nd sphere\/ball version of the headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Next I am showing a headlamp from a vintage motorcycle with the original on the left:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vintage motorcycle headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sphere\/ball version of the headlamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Not one of the better sets of images but unless you try these things you will never learn what works and what doesn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a visit to an open air museum that had vintage vehicles I took some photos of headlamps and played around with these images using the ‘sphereising’ technique I have developed. It does give some strange effects. First is a headlamp from a vintage bus with the original on the left and a ‘squared’ version … Continue reading “Making sphere\/ball abstract images from simple subjects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,103,141,154,100,3,131,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract","category-before-after","category-comparison-slider","category-effects","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}