Mini Planet - The Playground

I've been playing around with these mini planets by shooting them in the middle of a playground, and I think this one worked out pretty well. It was hard since there was so much detail pretty close to the camera, so I had to do a lot of touch up work in various places.

Anyway, I think this looks pretty decent. I spent a while trying to make the center look good, since in the original mini planet, you could see my tripod's shadow and other random things. So I went back to get an overhead shot of just the center, and I think this looks pretty decent.

Any thoughts or opinions?

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For anyone wanting to know how to do this, you can see a tutorial here.

And here is a video tutial I made showing how to make these

Feel free to download this to see a bigger version (4486x4486 pixels, 15.0 MB).

You can see more of these here