what's up 360 fanatics this is Ben from Life in 360 today I'm going to show
you how to create a really amazing inverted planet and we're going to take
you from beginning to end on shooting all the way through to editing and color
grading it with inverted planets you're not actually getting a planet in the end
what you're getting is essentially a big vortex or a wormhole or whichever rather
stupid name you wish to give it a shots on my very best stuff in inverted planet
style and it's a nice break from the usual tiny planet style and gives the
whole 360 photography a new kind of context and new stylistic choice for us
to make so without further ado over to you Ben okay so I'm here in Melbourne I
think I found the perfect spot to shoot an inverted planet inverted planets are
always good when you have really nice juicy details above you so this most
commonly will be trees or buildings so at the moment I've got lots of old dead
trees because it's the middle of winter here and I know they're going to look
really amazing if I have them within the inner circle of my inverted planet so
the best place to put the camera is going to be right on the ground
even without a tripod if it's safe to do so if you if you're on concrete or
something really hard you don't want to risk it blowing over and then totaling
your camera and having to buy a new one been there done that don't want to do it
but fortunately we have mud and grass under me so it shouldn't be an issue
let's go ahead and put our camera down on the ground so I'll just put it right
there don't want it too far away from you ideally you want it about no more
than six feet or so six to ten feet max I'm gonna stand I'm about two to three
feet from it where I am now all right so I've connected to the theta s app and
I've got my live view mode up here and it's looking really good the trees are
looking really sharp and crisp and fortunately we have a really clear sky
at the moment so they're really going to stand out and not blend into the sky I
put my remote here in my hand via the app so all I need to do is press that
button so what we want to do is get the phone away from view alright so looking
at the camera looking all tough I think I'll have good symmetry because the
trees are roughly an equal distance from the
camera so let's give it a shot okay three two one
all right I'm liking that a lot that I think I've got this on the first go
which is awesome so now we'll import it to theta plus we simply click the image
and then I go edit in theta plus and we go cropped image go view little planet
and there we are in normal planet mode but we're going for an inverted planet
this time and look at that that is perfect all right so I'm going to
quickly edit together this bad boy just in RollWorld there but you can use any
app you like I'd recommend RollWorld or the theta plus up they're both fantastic
but there's also heaps of other good ones so whatever is your personal
preference go for it so now I'll do a really quick edit won't take me long at
all this image is already good to go and all
I need to do is just put it together i zoom in a bit and we're pretty much good
to go
okay export picture on screen top right 1920 camera roll so one of my personal
favorite images that I have taken myself was the image I used on the cover of my
book it was when I was in Canada and we had a really beautiful dead forest in
the middle of winter freezing cold and I inverted it to make it look like sharp
spines poking towards the middle of the image and just looks really kind of
harsh and sharp and really nice to look at so if something works for you once
it'll more than likely work for you a second time so I'm gonna go and try to
emulate the look of this image so I've opened up the image in Snapseed and it
looks really good as a color photo but I think it's going to look even better as
black and white we already have a lot of harshness and we've got the dead tree
branches sticking into the middle and we have a lot of contrast whenever you've
got contrast a high amount of it it will make for a really good black and white
photo normally when you have less contrast often the colors the different
the contrast between the colors will say be there but I think we've got an
awesome black and white here and there you go snap's just confirm that so let's
just bring up bright a tiny tiny bit let's bring our shadows
down a little bit and see what happens wow that looks fantastic looks like a
horror film poster really really good almost looks like an eyeball as well
like veins in an eyeball this is a really good image because we had that
initial contrast there to begin with with our clear day and a really harsh
sharp trees once that's not really gonna do much highlights yeah let's bring up
our highlights again just to increase that contrast so the blacks stand out
even more in the center of the image I do want my figure
to be a little bit visible I don't want to be totally visible because the
silhouette looks great but I just want to at least see the details on my face
just a little bit a little bit of face is good don't want to completely lose it
let's just play with the ambience again I play with all sliders whenever I'm
editing just in case it doesn't hurt going one way or another you can always
change it back but do it just in case it looks fantastic because there will often
be one slider that just blows your way that you never thought would okay so
ambience all the way to the right no don't like that too many details I'm
going all the way to the left and that's evening out my sky a lot more that looks
really good and therefore it draws more attention to the branches because
there's less clutter up behind the branches so I'm going to leave my
ambience all the way to the left there contrasts let's just play with that no
that's too much contrast I think we're good at zero I'm really gonna be happy
with this posting it to Instagram because it's going to stand out really
well post a lot of color photos recently so
something like this which is kind of cold and harsh and black and white will
really pop out on that Instagram grid which is always a good thing alright
guys I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope you go and shoot some innovative
planets of your own really soon remember tall buildings and tall trees
always look fantastic filling up that inner circle of inverted planets so keep
an eye out for them feel free to subscribe to us we will have regular
videos coming out from here on at least one to two a week also feel free to
check out my book it's called Life in 360 a beginner's guide to tiny planet
photography and Jack it'll make you godlike I personally guarantee that
anything I might have guarantee but it'll make you good
until next time guys keep shooting if you ain't shooting you ain't fun