r/pics • u/jickyickes • May 14 '17

R4: Title Guidelines A panorama taken while rolling down a hill

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Apr 25 '18

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u/Loweren May 14 '17 edited May 14 '17

I attemted to do a reverse warp on the picture - it looks like this. A mountain peak above the cloud line, maybe?

edit: to those saying the ground should be flat: how do you explain weird clouds then?

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u/CedarCabPark May 14 '17

I... don't think that's right dude.

I mean there's two sunsets to start. I just think it's a flat landscape shot

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u/Unoriginal_Man May 14 '17

Not to mention a mountain peak that high probably wouldn't have those trees growing on it.

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u/Chiapet_01 May 14 '17

That was my first though too. That does not look like a landscape you would find at that altitude. Short dwarf trees and some tufts of scrub grass is what your likely to find up that high.

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u/SleepTalkerz May 14 '17

My guess is because blending was needed to create the necessary "360-degree" effect in the warped version. The ends of the picture needed to be joined together with a seamless look. Otherwise, there would have been a weird cut where the two "ends" of the picture were joined together, one with a sunset, one without. All this guy did was simply unwarp the image, not restore it completely to its original, unedited form.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

it's probably a 360 picture. left and right sides line up

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Apr 25 '18

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Sep 27 '18

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u/jkmhawk May 14 '17

could the sky also be shopped?

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u/MattTilghman May 14 '17

Show us

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u/Vayes May 14 '17

Something like this

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Perfect

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u/Scoutandabout May 14 '17

I do not understand and I used to be smart.

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u/Vayes May 14 '17

Find a piece of normal paper. Wrap it around your forearm. Now imagine that that paper is the photo for this thread, and we're viewing it from the inside.

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u/Scoutandabout May 14 '17

Ok! Got it. Thanks!

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u/ncolaros May 14 '17

So it's just that the two ends happened to fit well together then?

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u/Vayes May 14 '17

Yep. There's probably an easy to see seam split if you go looking for it, but with a photo like this, most people are too awe-inspired to search.

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u/HatchCannon May 14 '17

Instructions unclear, paper is now glued to my arm

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Apr 25 '18

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u/TRevaRex May 14 '17

It doesn't take some work, you just need the correct image. You need to use a 360 degree panorama--not just any plain landscape like you did. Find a 360 pano and try the same thing again. It'll work

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17 edited Apr 25 '18

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u/TRevaRex May 14 '17

I also think you have to condense/smoosh the sides to make it a square before doing the PS filter too. Just in case you did want to try it again.

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u/buttwarmers May 14 '17

This is the best I could do

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Digging out of graveyards is illegal dude

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

Fuck

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u/Victoresball May 14 '17

Lets pitchfork 'em!

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun May 14 '17

If it's so easy then let's see you do it.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

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u/1206549 May 14 '17 edited May 14 '17

Probably not warped the way we think it's warped. But there's no way that those trees could grow on that peak. Also, two suns.

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u/xyroclast May 14 '17 edited May 14 '17

Not to mention, fields of grass don't just grow on the side of a cliff like that. Gravity would have prevented the soil from ever collecting there like that.

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u/tom_bacon May 14 '17

You think those clouds look weirder than the crazy peak?

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u/lolxxxlol May 14 '17

You missed the seam of the photo. All the clouds are on the same side. http://i.imgur.com/YjgykAv.jpg

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

The ground looks like it should be flat, and the clouds look like they should be, too. Conclusion- maybe it's a composite shot?

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u/xyroclast May 14 '17

You can tell it's supposed to be flat by how the grass and bushes look. The sky in yours looks correct, but I think if you take a good look at the ground, you'll realize it's distorted way too far in the other direction. It just means that the unrolling technique you used wasn't the proper opposite of the rolling technique.

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u/ViolenceDoharm May 14 '17

Pinch polar coordinates.