This is Ben from Life in 360 and DJI have finally released sphere mode, which
means you can get your DJI Spark and shoot a full 360 panorama from the sky
so in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to do it!
So the first thing you want to do is download the latest firmware for the spark you can do that
by connecting to the app also you want the latest app so make sure you update
both of those which then gives you the ability to go into sphere mode when we
are in the sky next everything is really similar to how you would normally fly
you'll want to launch the drone get up in the sky and then we're going to
change in a sphere mode so before you needed a third-party app like Litchi,
Hangar360 or Dronepan, now you don't you can do it within the DJI app so let's go
ahead and open up DJI Go 4 and we're gonna go up and place our drone in the
spot in the sky that we want to capture I've got a really nice path here I'm in
Winnipeg which is in Canada right now and this old dead forest look really nice
and I know it's going to look amazing from overhead so first step is you want
to go into your settings there and you want to make sure you're in photo mode
not video so we're going to hit that photo icon and then you'll see Pano, we're gonna
gonna click Pano. Okay and now you'll see that that 360 symbol is there right in
the middle of the tool bar on the right hand side now it's just simple if you're
pressing the button it's going to initiate a photo sequence so it's going
to take 46 photos for us really quickly something I've noticed about this app is
it's so much faster than Litchi or any of the other apps and it does it all really
really fast and it does everything for you this will stitch in camera you can
download to your phone and have a 360 then and there
no post-production woohoo how good is that so as you can see it's taking our
photos or 11th in already, we're already quarter the way in and the drone is
doing a good job it's doing it so fast I'm seeing how fast this gimbal is
moving and it's at lightning speed so I'm gonna let it do that it is a little
bit windy but I can see the spark is fighting the wind really nicely and it's
capturing every piece of the jigsaw of this landscape I really can't believe
this we're already 42 photos in and maybe 30 or 45 seconds has passed so this means
it's going to be really good for shooting on the fly and getting more out
of your battery instead of getting one or two photos like Litchi might allow
you with the Spark you could now get three four or even five if you shoot
fast. And we're done so I'm going to go ahead and fly off to another spot
and done we're at 70% battery still and we've taken two full 360 panoramas
normally your battery would be done by now so I'm really happy about that
I just had a stupid creative idea where I'm going to lower the drone to about
maybe 10 meters high then i'm going to lie right in the middle of this path and
take a 360. I think it'll end up really really nice
alright let's do it! and three two one
still shooting come on Sparky hurry it up!
Alright time to download the footage and see what our panoramas look
like I have a very very good feeling and instantly its stitching within the app
how cool is that you don't need third-party software anymore for your
computer it's going to do it on your phone so at the moment I think it's only
available for iOS however it will be coming to Android really soon I've got
no doubt and this is gonna make the workflow so much faster and easier oh my
god that looks so good holy crap I can't believe that this
little spark did this this is higher res than any 360 camera! Look at
that detail in all directions like that's incredible I didn't even use a
360 camera here it's just my little spark and I can already turn that into a
tiny planet wow this is really going to change the game I can't wait to shoot a
ton more 360 photos with this and look you can see it even patched in the sky
for me how did it do that it must have predicted the sky
I'm guessing this must be a new feature of the sphere mode. It can't see above
the propellers right, so it can't see what's above it and here it's just
predicted what's above it and I don't notice anything it looks like it's the
actual clouds in the sky. The stitching inside of the app is a little bit shit
Wait did I say a little bit? Really I'd only use this to preview your images you
will want to take it inside of a dedicated stitcher on your computer if
you want it to be done properly. Hugin is free, PTGui is a good one, and also Kolor
autopano giga will all do the job. In this example I'll be using ptgui and
this is Ben Claremont's official workflow for the technically challenged
step one is to load our 46 images into the program and instantly you'll see
there we have an equirectangular that is actually properly stitched next we
convert to a little planet or you can keep it as equirectangular if you
prefer a 360 now we go create panorama now we end up with this and I know this
looks pretty average right but guess what the resolution is 13,097
pixels by 13,097
pixels so when we crop in look at that detail I can go right in and I'm getting
beautiful crisp detail in all directions this is a massive advantage to shooting
this way and I'm just gobsmacked at how well this turned out from my silly
little spark drone I was able to create this ultra high res panorama next I did
some color grading to this bad boy I took it in a Photoshop adjusted the
shadows the highlights the saturation and made it look as nice as possible for Instagram
Until next time this has been Ben from life in 360 I will put a link
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