What's up guys?This is Ben from Life In 360
and today for something a little
different I'm going to be walking around
Sydney Harbour, my home city and shooting
some stock footage in 360. Got my Gear
360 that I'm shooting this on now and I
think this is the perfect day to go out
shooting and my aim is to get some stock
footage that I can hopefully sell online
brought my big-ass lightstand this
thing can extend about 4 meters high
it's ridiculous and yeah I thought
I'd find the best spots that I can find
in Sydney. I'm just at the harbour right now
and as you can see I've got the
beautiful harbour bridge behind me this
is one of Sydney's hidden spots no one
knows about except me and these people
so hopefully no security guards come and
tell me to get lost which is a real
possibility. Ok, Gear 360 is on, so first
i'm just gonna spread the legs you
want to draw as little attention to
yourself as possible when you're
shooting in public so i'm gonna not
make it too obvious if I can help it and
only spread the legs a little tiny
bit okay so I'm going to carefully
consider the seam lines so i don't want the bridge to
be cut off so I'll make the seam line
maybe across here, this way I think
right and countdown on the camera is
activated, i do also want to hide the
shadow of the camera so I'm going to
hide it within the shadow of this beam
okay and we're rolling
Wow, this is going to go so high. Just gotta be
really careful it doesn't shake and that it
doesn't tip over I only need 60 good
seconds so hopefully there's 60
seconds where the lightstand stays still
and there aren't too many visual
distractions so I'm going to pretend I'm
an onlooker so I fit in naturally in
this 360 video I'll probably be an ant
given how high up the camera is.
coming down
one makes such a big difference even a
few meters the emotional perspective
changes huge so getting a light stand
that can go a different way is an
awesome awesome investment so weird I've
got my very first shot and I didn't get
a spoiled off two premises and taken up
to jail which is always a good start to
a video shoot this time want to go a
little bit closer to the harbor group so
you can really see what's underneath it
it's huge
Tod's can I give the scale of it like
you're actually here but this is one
damn big bridge there it is North Beauty
location number two
on the other side of the bridge now and
this time wearing shade instead of Sun
so the interesting to see how the
exposure turns out whether it works in
our favor or against us it's going to
reposition the steam line
so hopefully hasn't cut anything off
worried about that tree there might get
cut off I'm going to aim towards the
other side of there the bridge I think
we should be good there fingers crossed
and
as high as we can go
so from viewing a two location so far
something I've realized is that people
are much less likely to stare if you're
not actually next to the lights and all
the camera so if you go set it up and
walk away people won't look at you like
you're surveying for aliens and that's
always a good thing not that I really
care because it's not going to prove my
ego or anything but I'm just worried
about it ruining the footage like if
everyone's staring at the camera and
staring Andrew suspiciously well I'm
near the camera then that defeats the
purpose of coming out and shooting
footage because there's just going to be
full of people breaking the fourth wall
alright so location number three halfway
in between Sydney Harbour Bridge and the
Opera House over there and I do need to
make a decision about the seam line
because I've got a big fence here
obviously I'll raise the camera higher
than the fence but it could still get
stitched so I cut and off in the scene
so therefore it's important that I keep
the seam line here so it doesn't cut any
of this off even though it's going to be
high it probably will and cut it off if
it's too close and it will be if I face
the scene that way so it's going to face
it this way and I'm anticipating no
issues could be wrong I've been wrong
many many times before
like my lights and is just part of the
fence icon listen nobody has noticed it
that's awesome I think this is the
perfect spot if he expose you looks good
and I think we've got a winner
of course here I'm just acting like an
innocent bystander here for a picnic on
his lonesome with all of his friends
where'd you go honey time to review the
footage because if I need to reshoot it
now is the time to do it while I'm here
and not employed at all when I get home
and realize it looks crappy I just
upload push my phone and watched it back
and thankfully it looks awesome it's
such an important part of your workflow
you need to be checking your footage on
location if you think about shooting
professionally or even coming
professionally there's no worse feeling
than getting home and realizing that all
of your footage is at the resolution or
it's overexposed completely ruined it
unusable it's better to know then in
there so you can quickly go back and
reshoot it that's happened to me so many
times honestly with both 360 and
conventional video and photo personally
I'm all about merging creativity in
business in order to be creative long
term you need to be kind of making money
from it or earning enough to survive and
you can do that through your creativity
then that's a really good thing to be
not always struggling to find time to be
creative because you have the financial
backing to keep getting out
experimenting taking photos and videos
that's why this idea really appealed to
me the shooting stock video is a really
good passive income you can choose
really good footage and put it online
it's going to only money forever yes it
might not be a huge amount could be but
it's just good enough and it's picked up
by the right amount of people and the
right people but you need to be thinking
about passive income strategies if you
do want creatively to be a big part of
your life long term you can't be
struggling it can't be struggling others
unfortunately need to find
financial strategies that support that
and allow you to do it with the larger
part of your time something I don't
think a lot of people realize is the
wedge of the beginning of 360 there's so
many damn opportunities to make a really
good position for yourself and to really
set yourself up nicely and for things
like stock footage there are no famous
360 stock footage shooters yet so
although that's not something I want to
do do not want to be stock footage
shooter I do recognize there's a gap in
the market and there's potential took
shoots and stuff that really gets
noticed because this is nothing else yet
think about stocks photos and stuff
video there's so much online there's
hundreds of millions of stock photos
online available for purchase it's so
hard to get your photo to stand out as
we stock video in 360 there's maybe
hundreds of clips that's it so you'll be
interesting to see how this pans out
look I'm not even confident yet that it
will but assuming that 360 video does
become a mainstream media which I'm very
confident it will stock footage it's
going to be a real way to earn money
through 360 okay here I am I think I'm
going to stand a much better chance of
getting some good interrupted footage at
the back of the Opera House because
they're so damn many people on the steps
there that there's probably a few
security guards as well and I just don't
want to run risk getting thrown out or
being told for my lights and away until
the very end of my shoot happy to face
that if I have to but I'd rather get so
much footage as I can and then go for
the riskiest shots the last just so I
know it's been a good day with or
without that final shot looking going
the coast is clear the only issue I have
at the moment is the shadow of the
lights down I was going to be quite
prominent so hopefully I'm hoping once
the camera is raised high enough it will
disappear just clips so far away from
four meters up I look like an ant so I'm
hoping the shutter will be too so let's
find out
a
how's that all I can see that I can
definitely see that I'm soaking everyone
else
lots of curious stares and questions but
it's all good I'm happy to talk 360 if
anyone's interested
house had view helpless thing line
both the questions that go through my
mind on a daily base
so many people come so close I'm
terrified that they're going to be
taking a selfie and kick it and then the
camera goes flying and then but like
year 360 I think I've probably got a
good 60 seconds so I'm going to take it
down just for safety sake and move over
to probably a better viewpoint over
there where you're closer to the Harbour
Bridge and there's less people
so now I'm heading to my very final
location that's right in front of the
Opera House and this probably has the
highest element of risk just because
there's so many people there and it's
going to be hard to get a good vantage
point and not have people staring at me
and not having people ask me to move or
leave so I'm really not expecting to get
a good shot however this could
potentially be one of the best shots I
ever get if I do find that perfect spot
it's not actually as many people as I
thought there would be so that's a very
good start we're off to I think this is
going to be the best vantage point
because you can see all three sales of
the Opera House really clearly a dilemma
you'll almost always face when you're in
a really good photos but like this is
whenever you set up your camera in the
perfect position someone else is going
to come and sit within a metre of you
and they'll set up they'll get
comfortable and they'll ruin any chance
of getting a shot there for you to get
up to use the new squad setup again then
the other person comes so that's a
dilemma I'm currently facing just
walking around this little paved area of
the Opera House and I'd seem to find the
perfect angle to that's conducive of
hiding a light stand let's do this
Hey
I just plan on bringing toys here 360
360 camera yeah
360 camera lens on either side perfect
place to play around it anything all
right cool sorry oh yeah yeah yeah so it
took 30 seconds of having my camera
Allen rolling for security guards
becomin question what I was doing they
were just a friendly smile and said hey
I'm just you shooting with my new toys
that I got and yes just both the
personal reasons and he looks cool that
helps to be friendly can't be
standoffish always as friendly as
possible
and just kind of understate what you do
all right 15 successful day so happy
it's gone flawlessly at every location
been able to shoot at least 60 seconds
of really good footage you want to go
home now and review it and just make
sure I've got something worthy of being
uploaded and potentially sold online so
I'm super happy I definitely encourage
you to do this in your own City if you
have any really nice landmarks with
capturing get out of 4k 360 camera and a
light stand get the best vantage point
you can find shoot 60 seconds of stock
footage and try uploading to this 360
website I'll definitely be sure to
update you guys about how it goes not
totally confident yet that it's the
right way to go but we'll find out until
next time keep capturing your world and
360 hope you enjoyed the tiny planet
blog just thought I'd try something
different let me know if you like this
I'll try another one all right guys
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