Panoramic App Misuse

I don’t know if this is app misuse so much as just… unusual app use, but it captures images of things in a way unlike they actually are, so I’ll count it. I used my phone’s native panoramic camera to do a few experiments.

Un-bending Bendy Things

For these images I sought out real-world items that were curved and tried to move the camera as I photographed them so that they came out straight in the final image. It only really worked with things that were curved in a horizontal plane, because my app did not allow me to rotate my camera in any other direction. Here are some of my results:

The original bench
The bench, straightened
The original ramp
The ramp, straightened

 

The original headphones
The headphones, straightened
Drawing with Light

I brought a flashlight out to photograph a wall at night, and tried moving it in various ways as I took the panorama.

Moving the light upwards
Moving the light up and down
Moving the light up and down, but going backwards during each movement so the edges are more sharp