Huh! Every time I come to Vancouver,
I end up at this place, Granville Island.
It's one of the best places for 360 photography I've come across.
Today, I've got the Kandao Qoocam 8K,
and I'm hunting for some epic 360 photos.
So, I'm gonna start by shooting in DNG RAW,
however, there's a bit of an obstacle,
and that is an endless amount of traffic
coming in both ways.
I'm gonna have to wait for the perfect timing,
run out in front of this sign,
and capture the sign as close to it
as I can get a clean shot of it with.
And if it doesn't work out,
at least you've got my death on camera.
So, what I'm going to do
is change it into manual mode.
Because I'll be running out,
I'm not going to have a whole lot of time
to take this photo.
I need to make sure my shutter speed is really fast.
I'm thinking around a 1/1000 shutter speed.
Want to keep my ISO low,
so I don't get any noise.
Always keep your ISO as low as possible.
I'm gonna do a test shot.
All right, here it is.
That's looking pretty good.
The highlights aren't overexposed,
everything's relatively sharp,
that's what I want.
Okay, so now let's go do the real thing.
Okay, so I brought this photo into camera RAW in Photoshop,
edited the DNG, brought up the shadows,
brought down the highlights, increased the vibrance,
and that is looking pretty darn good.
Okay, next I'm going to be using DNG8 mode,
with the Qoocam 8K.
The technique is called stacking,
where you're basically taking eight high quality RAW files,
combining them together, and eliminating imperfections
like noise, like color banding,
any kind of nasty bits of the image eliminated
because you're combining the best bits of all eight photos
into one ultra perfect amazing photo.
I think I have some volunteers to help me out
with this next shot.
I'm going to switch into DNG8 mode,
going to set my exposure manually again,
and I'm going to make it slightly under exposed,
but not too under exposed.
It's always better to expose for the highlights
so they don't get overblown.
So that's going to be a bit too bright there,
so I'll go faster,
need to go a bit faster yet again.
I'm going to say 1/640th of a second.
(laughing mischievously)
Come on, duckies.
Come close for my photo.
Here, duckies.
(quacking)
There we go, that works.
Yes, they're falling for it, yes!
No, no, no, just there.
Look, there's a 360 camera.
Didn't work.
Damn you ducks outsmarting me.
I think I got some kind of shot.
I think that's the best I'm gonna do.
These ducks are way too smart for me.
How embarrassing.
Okay, that was pretty good.
Now, I want to simulate a virtual tour like environment
with super high contrast lighting.
I think I've found one here.
There's so many different strengths of light
in this area of Granville Island.
I've got these bright lights ahead.
They're as almost as bright
as you can get from an overhead light.
We have the next level down, which is sunlight,
ambient sunlight coming through there,
spilling in to this darker, shadowy area.
In here, we have this awesome looking workshop
that no one is in,
so hopefully we can shoot and we won't get kicked out.
I think this will be a really good opportunity
to test the DNG8 again,
but this time, I'm going to try bracketing,
meaning I'll take three sets of DNG8,
one at zero, one at plus two, one at minus two EV,
combine them together, for one, wait a sec.
Eight, nine, ten, 16 (audio speeds forward).
24 shot 360 photo.
I think it's going to be pretty epic.
Let's give it a go.
All right, final shot of the day,
I'll be testing Qoocam 8K at nighttime.
I have an epic view of Vancouver on one side,
and Granville Island is on the other side.
It looks so good right now.
All right, so I just had a cool idea.
What I'm going to do
is set my shutter speed to less than a second,
because firstly I need to light up
this dark area beneath me,
but also I've got a major road behind me
with cars driving really quickly
and they're gonna get in shot.
So what I can do, if I slow down my shutter speed,
the lights coming from the cars will turn into
almost like a light painting,
like a stream of light behind me.
I got myself a money shot.
I'm happy.
I'll be able to sleep well tonight.
So, the Qoocam 8K,
I give it a pass for photos.
Those look great.
I'll post a link to all five photos on my Facebook page
in the description, as well as the Qoocam 8K.
That's it.
Happy shooting.