wow! supergreat! how do made this?
Posted by Robert at June 20, 2007 03:05 AMTHAT
is
something
else.
WOW!! I love this picture!
Posted by Neil at June 20, 2007 03:30 AMAmazing!
How did you do it?
Love, love, love. I miss UofT.
Posted by florence98 at June 20, 2007 03:49 AMWhat a wonderful photo !
I loved 'le grand mobile' but that one is even better !!!
What program did you use to combine the panorama ?
Brilliant, simply brilliant!
I love your panorama-shots!
Awsome! :D
Great capture! How did you do this? You suprise us every day Sam!
Posted by Marc van Agteren at June 20, 2007 04:38 AMHow the heck did you do this? Seriously, I would really like to know! Thanks.
Posted by Jake at June 20, 2007 04:41 AMwoah !!! great
Posted by renaud at June 20, 2007 04:47 AMGreat effects, the power of computers.
Posted by Mick at June 20, 2007 04:52 AMAs amazing as this picture is...the place still brings back bad memories of a lot of stressful times! This shot is so creative - how do you do something like this?
Posted by Khadeeja at June 20, 2007 04:58 AMThis is so cool and exact! Really looks like a little planet! How did you get to do this?
Posted by vg at June 20, 2007 05:11 AMuauhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Paco at June 20, 2007 05:30 AMReally nice! How did you do this?
Posted by Sigrinn at June 20, 2007 05:36 AMObvious question here is how did you manage not to photograph your feet :)
That's a very cool picture by the way!
This image is so amazing that i could not stay away with out commenting, how do you do it. Any way great work
Posted by millzero at June 20, 2007 05:55 AMwicked picture! definately not your traditional panoramic. I love it
Posted by Graham at June 20, 2007 06:02 AMAmazing shot!
Posted by Bratu Mihnea at June 20, 2007 06:04 AMthis is fantastic
how did you do it?
I wish I could take such a picture. I mean not only it's beauty but it's method too. this has become a habit, looking your photos every day. it really has became my daily dose of imagery.thanks
Posted by sikhool at June 20, 2007 06:16 AM*O*
wow... this is really interesting!!
Just... WOW! What an amazing picture. Truly outstanding.
Posted by Martin at June 20, 2007 06:50 AMI love this photo? Verses of It's A Small World After All starting running through my head..!
Posted by A. Lok at June 20, 2007 06:54 AMbest wallpaper ever! cool pic
Posted by davin at June 20, 2007 07:07 AMCan you explain how you make a beautiful image like this?
Posted by Thomas at June 20, 2007 07:15 AMYou never cease to amaze me. I love the globe-like feel to this one.
Posted by Eric at June 20, 2007 07:19 AMBrilliant! Well done.
Posted by Pete at June 20, 2007 07:21 AMI've been quietly looking at your daily entries for several months. I can't contain myself anymore- YOUR F*#&ING AWESOME !!!! You deserve any and all success that comes your way. Please continue supplying the eye candy- ME LIKEY !!!!
Stefan
Perfect photo!
Mind to tell us what kind of post processing you did to achieve this effect?
Posted by saiko at June 20, 2007 07:36 AMThat's absolutely stunning. I'm always impressed with your ability to do something different with photographs, like this. How did you do it?
Posted by Ash at June 20, 2007 07:37 AMVery cool!
Posted by Kirsten at June 20, 2007 07:39 AMWow nicely done. You don't see this type of shot every day.
Posted by Rob at June 20, 2007 07:40 AMI stopped doing acid years ago! DON'T DO THIS TO ME!!!
i'm like ":o".
Posted by فربد at June 20, 2007 07:48 AMhow?
Posted by moondog at June 20, 2007 07:50 AMOMG... is the most wonderfull photo i have seen ever... its only incredibly cool
:P
Posted by pasta0126 at June 20, 2007 07:50 AMThis is one of your very best. Stunningly beautiful.
-AM
Posted by Anne-Marie at June 20, 2007 07:51 AMOMG! You've done the unheard of again! A really cool concept. Great work! J
Posted by Jason at June 20, 2007 07:52 AMCan you go into detail on your lens preference and technique for this shot? I have seen shots like this before but would like to know how to shoot them.
Thanks,
Denny
wow
is that done with PT Gui because if it is i have some learning to do!! haha
oh. my. god. how cool is that?!
Posted by reach.dabble.shine at June 20, 2007 08:16 AMLooks like a big Katamari!
:-)
Posted by Yermum at June 20, 2007 08:19 AMI absolutely LOVE this picture. I'm curious as to how you did this hand held and captured everything so vividly and achieved this affect?
I stumbled upon your site last week and have been checking it out every day now. I love what you do - makes me want to become a photographer!
Bravo!
Posted by David at June 20, 2007 08:19 AMWOW! This is awesome. I'd love to know how you did it. And the fact that the sky is knocked out of the picture gives it a 'cardboard cutout' kinda feel. I can imagine holding this in my hands and spinning it around to see the different buildings. Too cool...
Posted by Robert at June 20, 2007 08:34 AMWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by alice at June 20, 2007 08:38 AMWow, Sam, this is really cool!
Posted by Bruce at June 20, 2007 08:40 AMHey, this is my first time comment. I just had to let you know this photo is really unique and enjoyable to look at. I appreciate the amount of experimentation you put into your work.
Posted by Jus at June 20, 2007 08:40 AMwow! this is really really really cool. it's incredibly 3D. It'd make a great poster. how did you do that???
-adk
Sam,
It is rediculous how cool this picture is. Keep up the mind-blowing work.
Ed
Posted by Ed Lavalette at June 20, 2007 08:44 AMHow the hell did you pull this one off? I mean I can figure it out.. but there is virtually no sign of stitching anywhere!! amazing!
Posted by Brian at June 20, 2007 08:48 AMBeautiful work. It looks like the planet of the Little Prince, not as lonely as he was though.
Posted by SlicesofLife at June 20, 2007 08:53 AMYou know, I'm so lazy to comment usually but I cant help it this time!
this is amazing, so weired, so nice.
why you didn't write any comment on how this was done this time. I'm keen to know.
great job!
oh boy, this one's gonna draw in a lot of comments! very cool. makes ya a bit dizzy, though! ; )
Posted by jamie at June 20, 2007 08:59 AMBeen coming to this site for a while now, but first post....this is simply amazing..keep up the good work
Posted by J.Singh at June 20, 2007 09:01 AM妙,这是球面镜头嘛。
Posted by 西皮士 at June 20, 2007 09:02 AMThat's just amazing...I love it!
Posted by kimberly at June 20, 2007 09:02 AMThat is just amazing. I get dizzy just looking at it. :-)
Posted by coffespaz at June 20, 2007 09:04 AMHow on earth did you do this with a 10mm lens. AMAZING!
Posted by Andrew at June 20, 2007 09:07 AMvery small planet?
Posted by gordito at June 20, 2007 09:08 AMwow that's awesome. What did you use to stitch that?
Posted by Eric at June 20, 2007 09:09 AMFor the first half second or so that I looked at this I thought it was a tree stump.
Very interesting.
Posted by William at June 20, 2007 09:12 AMwhat an ingenius idea.
Posted by Mo Hashim at June 20, 2007 09:18 AMHow appropriate!! I'll be graduating right there today! I love this :)
Posted by Susi at June 20, 2007 09:22 AMThis could seriously be in a gallery as a series among many other photos. Great job Sam, what's the technique you used?
Posted by Dennis Marciniak at June 20, 2007 09:22 AMAn amazing idea, and amazing execution. The white sky colour makes all the difference!
Too bad there isn't a way to easily make it possible for use to rotate this image (I did a quick search for Flash applets to do that, but didn't find anything).
Posted by David S. at June 20, 2007 09:27 AMSam, you made my day! Extraordinary!
Posted by Arash at June 20, 2007 09:29 AMSam!!!
THIS ONE IS FANTASTIC~! I always hoped that you'd come and take somee pictures of my school. I always tried take nice pictures of U of T but never worked out this nice. This one is just out of this world~! I LOVE the idea and it even looks like a globe of its own.
THANK YOU~!
Posted by Patrick at June 20, 2007 09:30 AMI do wish you'd explain how some of these effects are attained. I must have stared at this pic for 10 minutes...
Posted by Nardo Polo at June 20, 2007 09:30 AMWow.... Thats different.. Took my breath for a second
Posted by Andy at June 20, 2007 09:31 AMJust amazing Sam, really well done.
Posted by Scott Murdoch at June 20, 2007 09:33 AMThis is radical, I hope you post a bit of a "how it was made".
Posted by Tristan at June 20, 2007 09:37 AMholy cow!!! How the heck did you do that?
killer pic dude!
Posted by iinka at June 20, 2007 09:38 AMWow, how did you do this!?
Posted by Noah at June 20, 2007 09:42 AMGood Morning Sam! Well at least for me, the day started just now and what a better way to do it than seeing your photos! This one its so cool! Thank you!
Posted by Mariel at June 20, 2007 09:52 AMAmazing!!
Posted by mel at June 20, 2007 09:56 AMDoes anyone can tell me how to make this effect?
BTW, great photo!
Posted by Bueno at June 20, 2007 09:58 AMspeechless.
holy crap that's awesome. and i thought grand mobile was cool. this blows me away. how'd you do that? great work !
Posted by J at June 20, 2007 10:01 AMBy far this is THE best photo I have seen.
awesome photo..
This is so going on my desktop
Ok, I know you (Sam) have been playing with the Photomerge in CS3, but how the heck do you create this with that? Can CS3 merge in a radial pattern?
Posted by Krigh at June 20, 2007 10:04 AMThat is too cool! I've been watching your photoblog for over 2 years now, and this is the first time I've seen you do something like this. Great photo! :)
Posted by Kirk Munro at June 20, 2007 10:13 AMwow! this is too much! nice work.
Posted by alounsbury at June 20, 2007 10:25 AMI love it. I find myself wanting to rotate it like I do with Google Earth.
Posted by Don at June 20, 2007 10:32 AMFirst, I love the shot. I'm not knocking it.
Second, to inform everyone wondering "HOW!?" ...
This is a pretty well known technique, you can see hundreds of these on flickr if you look.
Step 1: Take a 360' panorama, using a tripod.
Step 2: Squish it (not maintaining aspect ratio) to a square dimension.
Step 3: Photoshop filter "Polar coordinates" (or something to that effect).
However, when I tried this, I couldn't get the smooth terrain look in the middle, here his grass is. Mine (and most of them on flickr) look pinched in the middle. This, to me, is the puzzle.
The world of university :D
Posted by Lazo at June 20, 2007 10:43 AMsimply amazing!
Larger Version PLEASE! wow!
Posted by Dan at June 20, 2007 11:07 AMThe subjects (the old university buildings) make this one great. First time I've seen something like this done. Wow!
Posted by A.R. at June 20, 2007 11:25 AMSam - you have done it again...amazed everyone with your brilliance!!
Posted by Ricky at June 20, 2007 12:15 PMWow. Okay, I've been a fan for ages, but that is just the most incredible photo you've done to date. Amazing!
Posted by i.f. at June 20, 2007 12:36 PMI've seen a ton of these on flickr, but I like yours a lot better than any other one i've seen.
Posted by David at June 20, 2007 03:53 PMWow! This is indeed fantastic! I've been visiting your site everyday for 2 years, but have never commented on your photos before.This one, I think, really deserves it. It deserves hundreds of comments. Again, great job!
Posted by Sina at June 20, 2007 04:09 PMSam -- When will you start a teaching course or something?
Posted by Pawan at June 20, 2007 04:59 PMyou should sell this to U of T. I'd be great for them.
Posted by selam at June 20, 2007 05:47 PMby far the coolest image I've seen in recent times. I like when you experiment, you come up with some great things.
Posted by Jason at June 20, 2007 07:45 PMNice, you should do one of Toronto!
Posted by Dan Salmon at June 20, 2007 10:00 PMSimply, astonishing. Well done.
Posted by Mohamadreza at June 20, 2007 10:33 PMIt's a small world after all. Its a small world after all. Its a small world after all. It's a small small world...
Astounding!!
I said it before I'll say it again. Sam you are the man!
You should be instructing a course at U of T already (they would be lucky to get you).
The only thing better would have been a continual encircling the outer rim of the photo
Posted by scott at June 20, 2007 10:47 PMTHAT IS SOOOO AWESOME !!!
Posted by Lea at June 20, 2007 10:48 PMGreat pic and I am at U of T so this pic means alot to me. When you are there, it really is your own little planet and nothing else seems to matter.
anyways, my only qualm is; why did you have to put the monstrosity of Med Sci at the top?
Posted by Steve at June 20, 2007 11:53 PMIs that what I see if I were a fruit fly?
Posted by Boreo at June 21, 2007 12:12 AMWOW...
Posted by rhodyl at June 21, 2007 01:06 AMThanks a lot Sam,
Posted by Varahram at June 21, 2007 01:15 AMvaghean zibast.
Posted by sarah at June 21, 2007 03:56 AMa shocking post once in a while and as usual!
Posted by hadi at June 21, 2007 09:50 AMVery cool! And thanks for the instructions! I may have to give that a try sometime...
Posted by Alice at June 21, 2007 11:05 AMThat is a fantastic image! You should send it to UofT I am sure they would want that for some campaign or another. Great work.
Posted by mtully at June 21, 2007 11:24 AMannoying that this tip is not Sams and he doesnt give credit where he got it from. I am pretty sure photojojo.com had this first. Credit can mean a lot on the web, just like if someone stole your image and used it elsewhere.
Posted by ADH at June 21, 2007 12:41 PMThanks for posting such a great photo of U of T. Today (June 21st) is my Convocation from the University and it's wonderful to have such a neat picture of Front Campus.
Cheers,
Carolyn
Awesome.. I have a few old 360 panoramic images sitting on my computer.. I'll definitively try that tonight!!
Thanks a lot for the explanations
Woooooooow! I don't know how to express the magnitude of my amazement except through the phrase "simply ***ing awesome"! Very creative.
Posted by Kiana at June 22, 2007 12:47 PMNice :-)
Posted by Pranni at July 2, 2007 05:39 AMwow thats pretty cool.
yeah very cool infact.
Posted by euan at July 9, 2007 05:18 PMI wish I was as crazy as you!
Posted by Mehdi at September 17, 2007 01:19 PMHey Sam, saw you pic on the Varsity paper at U of T St. George, I thought it was so amazing since I'd spotted the picture a few months ago and had hoped that every u of t student could see how amazing the picture was. Nice work!
Posted by Kenzo at October 7, 2007 01:06 AMholy.. awesome!
Posted by miklos at October 24, 2007 08:38 AMAn absolutely stunning picture! I had a go, too: far from perfect but I am getting there!
http://blocksatz.knoefler-journalist.com/2009/english/the-wonders-of-digital-image-editing/.
Posted by Eva at January 23, 2009 07:21 AMGreat idea, great picture! And thanks for the instructions how to do this.
Posted by eliane at December 11, 2009 10:23 AMThis is the coolest idea I've seen this photographic year. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by Oliver at September 7, 2012 07:57 AM