what's up guys this is Ben from Life in 360 because I'm going to teach you
how to do the mouth shot which is a shot that I came across in a moment of pure
stupidity and it's one of the shots that I've received the most amount of
attention for over the several times I've done it and posted to Instagram and
it's a shot that really grabs people's attention because it's such a unique
perspective as a photographer it's your mission to create photos that people
have never ever seen before and honestly I've never ever ever seen anything quite
like this so I'm going to show you exactly how to do it it's very simple
all you need is a 360 camera so you'll need a thin one like the Ricoh I'd say
the Ricoh the LG 360 cam the insta 360 Nano and possibly air it just needs to
be the size that it can actually fit inside your mouth I know this sounds
very juvenile so prepare yourself for juvenility you might want to get a
selfie stick to your thumb isn't as prominent in the shot
the idea I've got for the photo here is I'm just in Christchurch New Zealand at
the top of a big big mountain and I've got a stunning view right in front of me
and my idea is to see the whole of Christchurch from through my mouth and
the caption will be what jaw-dropping scenery this is so I think that's a nice
little pun to add to that photo so I'm going to walk you through it let's do it
so I've turned my Ricoh Theta camera on and I'm going to connect to my phone
so you can shoot either wirelessly through your phone or you can put on the
self timer mode actually you know what I'm going to do the self timer mode
which is activated by pressing the Wi-Fi button and and the on button at the same
time it's got we've got to be off press Wi-Fi and on and then you see a little
green button shows up so it means when five seconds self timer mode
all right so I'm going to line up my camera with my selfie stick so it's not
too noticeable that should do it and so it's going to be as simple as putting
your camera putting the theta inside my mouth and you want to open your mouth as
wide as possible this will mean the camera has firstly more ambient light
inside your mouth but also you will get a wider perspective of what's outside
your mouth you do want to stick it in pretty deep obviously you don't want to
touch the back of your mouth but let's give it a go normally takes me a couple
of goes so I'll walk you through it okay ready
so okay press the self-timer and
okay so I find it helps to breathe in as you take the shot this is because if you
breathe out it's going to create a fog on the lenses and it's going to ruin
your shot so if you breathe in you're not letting any hot air go onto lenses
and plug them up but that shot didn't feel that great so I'm going to do it
again I'm going to take maybe three shots and then upload to my smartphones
have a look see if I've got this shot essentially you want to give us a wider
perspective of your landscape as possible so let's do it again all right
something else I find is it's good to have a come in from the side as much as
possible this means if it's coming from the side it will get a clearer
perspective of what's in front of you if you hold your selfie stick or camera
like this on your hand and that the selfie sticks can be right in the center
of your division from through your mouth which will block it so you don't want to
block it so it's a good idea to come from the side like this so let's try it
again
all right that one felt a lot better actually so I'm going to upload to my
smartphone and let's have a look at what we get all right so I found in two out of
the three images auto-exposure did a bad job so it exposed for inside
my mouth my teeth look great and my gums look good but you couldn't just see
what was outside and the third one it exposed the outside so you could see what
was outside of your mouth and you do want to expose the outside because
that's kind of the focus of the shot so that was a good shot the only issue was
my mouth was too low I need to raise it a bit so I can get that horizon line
right in the horizon of my mouth so I'm going to give it another go but this
time I'm going to go into manual mode because the exposure is very important
and it really makes a big difference where you're holding the camera if it's
one centimeter further back in your mouth I'm just going to expose it
completely differently to if it's right at the the edge of your mouth so it will
help if you go into your manual settings so essentially with your manual settings
you want to expose to the landscape forget about your mouth we just want to
get a good shot good exposure and good color from our landscape so yeah this is
looking really good about one five thousandth of the second shutter speed
because it is quite bright out so let's give another go okay activated self
timer and three two getting a lot of tourists walking by giving me strange
looks they must think that I've been out in the wilderness two weeks on end and
have no food it's alright I promise and just trying to be creative here okay I
got the shot that looks absolutely stunning wow I can't believe how good
that turned out my mouth is quite well lit up as well but that landscape it
looks like something it was taking off of a proper camera so the exposure is
really good there and then when i zoom out later it's just going to be
incredible
gotta be honest this is probably the stupidest and smartest thing I've done
simultaneously in my life so I'm actually really glad I had an amount of
stupidity because it ends up being one of my crypt most creative shots and I'm
going to continue using it in different contexts in the future so it's just a
really good technique to have in your arsenal so if you want to hear the crazy
story about how I came across this shot you might want to check out my book it's
called Life in 360 a beginner's guide to tiny planet photography it'll teach you
this as well as many many many other 360 and tiny planet effects for both photo
and video it's an e-book - a quick read but it'll teach you everything also
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Christchurch I hope you having a great day and hope you get chomping away ASAP