Polar Coordinates

This tiny planet has been made by Grant Wilson using polar Coordinates. This is done using a panoramic shot preferably of 360° like the one below but anything over 150° can work. The photo is curved around a central point creating a planet. 

I order to create a tiny planet I have taken a selection of panorama photos unfortunatlty my camera cannot take 360 degree panoramas so in this screenshot I have combined 3 separate photos in order to create on that is 360 degrees. From here I then rotated the image 180 degree and change the dimensions to make the image into  a square. From here I used Photoshop's inbuilt polar coordinates distortion tool.

 I feel that the major issue with this image is that the trees reach the top of the image, because of this they have been distorted. In my next attempt I will also have to ensure that they is nothing to close in the foreground as the polar coordinates effect has not worked well with the bridge that was in the foreground of this image.

This photo began as just under 180°. Here I have duplicated the image and inversed it. Unfortunately this will result in the planet being identical on both sides but the half's will link much smoother together.

Here I have rotated the image and altered the dimensions making it square so that Photoshop's polar coordinate effect will correctly produce a tiny planet.