A style of photography I have been using quite a bit lately is called composite photography. Composite photography is where someone takes multiple photos from one viewpoint, and blends them together later. This creates something called a panorama. A panorama allows you to see much more of somewhere or something than if they were the one standing there. Some photographers use it to be able to see all of something big, while still being close enough to see details.You can also use it to see 360 degrees. Others use it to capture large landscapes or just to create the panorama effect.
Composite photography can also be used to create polar and spherical panoramas. Spherical panoramas are images that make the world appear to be wrapping around itself. Despite the name, spherical panoramas make the world look more like a circle than a sphere to me. Polar panoramas are different. I personally think that polar panoramas look much more like spheres than spherical panoramas. Back to the point. Polar panoramas create an image that appears to be a birds eye view of a small planet and the sky around it.
Some of them are convincing, but others are not as convincing. The main thing thing that makes them convincing for me is diversity. What I mean by diversity is having multiple different land forms. I think it should have water, flat ground, and trees or mountains if possible. Having all of those makes it look more like a satellite image than if you just had one thing, like a planet made entirely of water or grass.
