{"id":5758,"date":"2020-04-06T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:39:15","slug":"stay-at-home-using-my-sphere-camera-360x180-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5758","title":{"rendered":"Stay-at-home: Using my Sphere Camera (360\u00b0x180\u00b0 images)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a small, cheap (bottom end of the market) sphere camera that takes images that cover the full 360\u00b0x180\u00b0 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a ‘crystal ball’ projection (WordPress is cropping the top and bottom for some reason)…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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… a ‘fish-eye lens’ projection …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… a ‘little planet’ projection …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… and an ‘inverted little planet’ projection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The full size image. This makes it look a lot bigger than it is (about 10ft square!)…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… Crystal ball’ projection…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… ‘fish-eye’ view 1…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… fish-eye’ view 2…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… ‘little planet’ projection…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… ‘inverted little planet’ projection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In my next post I will show an ‘interactive’ or ‘VR’ version of this image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a small, cheap (bottom end of the market) sphere camera that takes images that cover the full 360\u00b0x180\u00b0 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 … Continue reading “Stay-at-home: Using my Sphere Camera (360\u00b0x180\u00b0 images)”<\/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":[91,88,71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-360-degree-images","category-little-planet","category-panoramas","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","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=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}