Polar Panoramas

These are two of my finished Polar panoramas. To create these we first researched the process of creating a polar panorama. Then, we each had to go home and find the location of our choice with an interesting horizon line. Afterwards, we took at least ten vertically oriented photos moving from left to right in a 360 degree rotation. Next, we merged the photos into a panorama and resized it into a square. Finally we flipped our image 180 degrees and added a polar coordinates filter. 

We then broke into partners and had a photo session. In this photo session, we had our partners stand on a stool above us to get a more three- dimensional look. Then we used the quick selection tool to cut ourselves out of that picture and paste ourselves onto one of our polar panoramas in a way that makes us look as if we are standing on top of the world. After that, we copied the cutout image of ourselves and brought the brightness completely down, lowered the opacity and warping the image to make it look like a shadow.