what's up guys this is Ben from life in 360 and today I'm going to show you how
to create a tiny planet photo with your Rico theta s camera theta theta theta
whatever the hell you want to call it so the promise of 360 photography is that
the camera captures everything around you a traditional camera would only
capture a very small window like this much this camera captures everything
front back left right up and down so we turn our camera on and it automatically
goes into camera mode and we are ready to shoot already so the most basic way
to take a 360 photo is put the camera directly in front of you but about arm's
length just just a little bit less than arm's length and press the shutter
button alright we've taken the photo as you might have heard and now we import
it wirelessly to our smartphone okay so I've got my smartphone here and I've got
my camera and now I want to connect it wirelessly so I can upload my photo so
you're simply on your smart phone go to Wi-Fi and in this case we'll connect to
theta SX blah blah blah alright we are connected so now we go to the theta s
app so let's click that there and let's hit the button on the bottom left and
now we want to go to camera to see our raw images okay let's have a look there
we go it's loaded and we'll click the top one there because that's our latest
image and there are downloads and now we're able to preview it in 360 space so
now we can move around our thumb and there you go there's me that all of that
handsome devil and there you can see the interior of my flat here in Sydney
Australia and there you have it you can't even see the the camera there in
my hand the stitching is that good so now we quit out of the theta s app and
we want to go into an editing app now and the best one for iOS I've found is
RollWorld it's the best all-around in my opinion allows you to do to do the
most complex manipulations very easily so now what we want to do is hit that
button there the big the big crosshair and we click photo and now we go to our
camera roll the which is automatically downloaded and we
click the bottom one down there and here we go it automatically stitches up the
photo for you and there I am in my apartment and it's in tiny planet mode
so that was very easy so you'll notice we've got a couple of
sliders here in RollWorld that manipulate certain aspects of the image the top one
here is for inversion we can make it inside-out right-side up like that we
have the second slider you probably won't want to use because this is more
for people shooting on their iPhones and then people shooting with 360 so you
just kind of fun it makes me look like a mutant which isn't particularly
desirable effect although it could be if it was Halloween I guess third one as
well see manipulate your image into a kind of unhelpful saying with the 3rd
slider it kind of dumb it to be unhelpful does the same thing slices and
dices me the fourth one however is very very helpful I use it all the time so
that's our rotation slider so we can turn it upside down there you go I think
I want this one to be as symmetrical as possible from above so I'm going to get
that nice and straight we don't want to use the fifth slider either because
again this one is for mobile phone panoramas and making them kind of blend
together a bit better which doesn't work for us when you've already shot on our
360 camera finally we've got our bottom slider which is the zoom so we can get
the right the right proportion that we like I'm gonna go a bit tighter on this
one there you go just make me more
symmetrical yeah there we go I'm liking the look as that maybe zoom in a bit
more to get rid of that ugly stuff one on the ceiling and yeah I'm quite happy
with that image there are there are some imperfect details which I can get rid of
later in the color grade so let's go ahead and export this image so I'll
click the top right button there choose preview you want to go picture on the
screen and this is our preview finally top right again and I'm going to export
at 1920 by 1920 3k and 4k is kind of overkill not necessary but 1920 is a
good size to allow for a good amount of later on so now we're going to export to
camera roll and there we have it now I'm going to equip color grade on this and
show you guys my process so my favorite color grading app is called Snapseed
because it gives you the most amount of movement and within your color later on
and allows you to really get rid of all those ugly imperfections so let's go
ahead and our most recent image is this one here and now we want to click the
bottom right button and we'll go to through an image and get our colors looking nice
and good so it'll liked it well I always like my colors nice and bright so boost
that saturation get the brightness up because it's a dark day it's overcast
outside so the interior of my flat is quite dark so fortunately we can bring
that up in Snapseed I must have a look at ambience yeah I like having a good
amount of contrast in my images and if you boost the ambience too much you
start losing that contrast so I'll move the ambient slider slightly the other
way a bit more brightness again I think and I'm boosting the warmth slider here
so I can pretend it's sunny and warm outside when in point of fact it's
actually raining and miserable and blue and horrible and more often than not
making them warm make them more inviting and more pleasurable to look at so I'm
going to go ahead and make one final adjustment I'm going to heal just that
top bit that's bugging me I'm clicking the healing function or it's going to
paint that out look how easy that was I just swipe my finger and I healed those
ugly imperfections how good is that love Snapseed fantastic all right I'm pretty
happy with this image so I'm gonna go ahead and export it so we just click
save up there and then save a copy just so we're not affecting our original
image in case we want to do something with it later and now we've got a pretty
darn good image that we did in less than 10 minutes that we can now upload to
Instagram and wow the world with that's the beauty of 360 photography you can
turn it over very quickly and do it all on your smartphone you don't need a
computer so feel free to subscribe to us on YouTube guys that would be much
appreciated and also feel free to pick up a copy of my book it's called life in
360: A beginners guide to tiny planet photography and
they'll take you from zero to hero with your tiny planet photography in very
little time right until next time guys keep shooting