Borbin the 🐱

The panotools projections are very versatile to achieve different mappings.

I wanted to take a photo of a tall object but could not step back for a normal view angle. In this case to capture the restaurant with its palm trees from the pathway.

Both full frame fisheye pictures for a good vertical and horizontal coverage to start with:

Each of the projection has a different mapping. The Transversal projections (rotated 90°) are not used here because of the horizontal distortion:

The full frame fisheye projection:

The Equirectangular projection:

The Vedutismo projection:

The Cylindric projection:

The Rectangular projection:

And the Mercator projection.
The restaurant with the largest 🌴 in Hawaii.

See also Panotools projection, The Balcony Panorama and Stereographic projection.