Hey guys! Today I'm coming at you from
Christchurch, New Zealand. Behind me is the
beautiful cathedral square it's an
amazing little city and today I want to
talk to you about selfie sticks and what
the right way to use one is and the wrong
way when shooting 360 unfortunately I
see the vast majority of the time on
Instagram and Facebook; i see people using
the wrong way and the wrong way is
exactly i'm holding it now it might look
right because the camera's facing
perfectly vertical in front of you
that's all great
however the issue here is a selfie stick
is very prominent in the final photo
this is because the front facing
lens has a really good view of the
selfie stick and you don't really want
that in shot if you wanted a
selfie stick in shot you should just take a
photo with you and your selfie stick with a big
love heart around it
i don't think you like it that much..
the selfie stick is there to be
invisible we don't actually want it in
our photos so there's a very simple
way of avoiding this. Alright my Theta
S is rolling and as you can see
the selfie stick is really prominent in shot no
matter where i go you're gonna see the selfie
stick and we don't want that so the
a very simple way of avoiding this is
adjusting your selfie stick so it's
perfectly straight if you can hide the
selfie stick directly underneath the
camera it's going to be completely
invisible because the camera can't
actually see what is directly beneath it
no matter which camera you have whether
it's this theta or the LG or the samsung
gear 360 the Nikon Keymission the
blindfold is going to be directly
underneath the camera and angling your
selfie stick so it's a perfectly straight
line will totally avoid the presence of
the selfie stick and then you can wave it
in whichever direction you want and it'll be
completely undetected- I mean look, yes
you still see there's a shadow on the
ground as you would have before but at
least this way the attention is
more drawn to what's around you as
opposed to how you're actually taking the
photo so just coming
at you today with a quick tip I think
this will really make a big difference
in your 360 photos because a selfie
stick's an amazing bit of technology i
know it seems very vain and narcissistic
walking around with a selfie stick but it
helps you get your camera away from you
which often the vast majority of the
time enhances your photo when you can
get it up really high or when you can
get kind of far away from me like this
it gives you a much better angle so it's
a great tool to have in your 360 photo
kit so i would recommend investing in
one as far as selfie sticks go a lot of
them are really good i wouldn't
necessarily recommend any particular
brand as long as it's got the standard
one quarter-inch tripod thread at the end
of it
often they'll have a smartphone mount at
the end so you just need to remove that
and then it should mostly go undetected
so yeah definitely invest in one they're
twenty or thirty bucks and you'll get some
of your best shots ever
Just getting that extra metre of
elevation makes a
huge huge difference it's quite
unbelievable actually so definitely a
tool with investing in if you want to
learn more about tiny planet photography
you might want to check out my ebook
it's called life in 360: a beginner's guide
to tiny planet photography and it's going
to teach you how to do really awesome 360
tiny planet effects like you're seeing now so
you might want to check it out- it's a quick read but
it'll give you all the cheats and hints to
shooting awesome tiny planet works until
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