Have you ever wanted to remove yourself
from your 360 photos? Often it can be
great being there in the photo, capturing
the environment with you in it- but we
don't always want that, sometimes we want
to record just the environment around us
and not have us cluttering the frame.
Yes we can go and hide behind a tree or
hide behind a park bench or whatever but
sometimes there isn't anywhere to hide
like here for example i'm in my local
park here in Rosebery in Sydney
Australia.
There's nowhere I can hide here, so
fortunately an app has just come out called
Vanish 360 which will solve this problem.
So at the moment this app is compatible with the
Ricoh Theta S camera i'm sure in the
future it might expand out to other
cameras at the moment is for the Ricoh so
let's have a little look at the workflow
step one is you'll need to be using a
tripod i like using this little
Manfrotto tripod it's a great all-around
tripod keeps the camera nice and low to
the ground which is often good so put
your camera on a tripod and let's put it
down the ground
I like this position here. Camera Wi-Fi
is on and you want to connect that to
your iPhone- so let's exit Pokemon Go and
get serious!
Alright so as you can see I've connected
to my my Theta S right there so I'm now
going to go into my Vanish 360 app so
because I've already connected to the
camera
this app will instantly recognize that
we are connected.
Alright so now we can set our exposure
for some reason it automatically over
exposes your images so you just have to
adjust the ISO and shutter speed there,
just so you have a picture that isn't
too bright and there we go
I'll preview up there is showing us that
that is looking really good
you want to switch to 5k there's 2k and
5k resolution just so you're using the full
data within the the Theta camera like
there's no point shooting lower res may
as well get as much detail as possible
so we'll go ahead now and hit that main
button so this is going to initiate
the first of our three photos that it
will then stitch together. Okay so there
we go
it's taking number one as we speak and
now we have to move over to a second
position which is way away from the
first one just so it can see that the
movement between the two photos
shouldn't be there, if you're too close
you might it might think that you're a
tree or something and you haven't moved
so it's important that you do move
somewhere further away from the camera
in your second position so as you
can see it's taking the second one now.
So now we'll go ahead to our third
position and it's taking the third one- Now
the app will automatically work out what
has moved and get rid of all of the
movement so because we've moved as you
can see there to three completely
different spots within our environment
it will then replace those spots that we
were covering with the two consistent
spots from the other two photos. So it's
compositing the images now and it will
automatically process a Ben-free
360 photo. Ok so there's the preview
of the 360 photo that has now stitched
me out of all three photos so let's go
into view mode and now we can view that in
virtual reality so as I look around here
you can't see me at all, it's cut me
completely out which is awesome, which means it's
done a good job. So now i'll just go to
'save image' there and save that to our
camera roll which we can then edit in an
editing program. So now you're free to do
whatever you like with this image- you
might want to turn into a tiny planet or
you might want to just upload it to
Facebook and show your friends that this
is the location i'm at. Honestly I prefer
having myself in the photos but
sometimes if you're doing maybe
professional work, nobody wants to
buy an image with you in it like they
need a clear landscape photo of your
environment so I think this app will be
a really handy tool for photographers
shooting 360 landscapes. I'm sure in the
future
they're going to make it much better
more features better stitching, it's
really good so far, it's only been out a week
so I'm excited
Alright guys this is Ben from Life in 360. I hope
you enjoyed this video
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