Today, I am going to show you a very easy mobile workflow for Qoocam 8K SuperHDR.
The whole process to generate this high-quality HDR image will only take 1 to 2 minutes.
If you have a Qoocam 8K and hate wasting time on photo editing - this is the tutorial for
you to get the best looking 360 photo or Tiny planet photo for Facebook 360 or Instagram.
And if you are lucky, your tiny planet photo might just get pickup by Mega Instagram account
like your boy right here, and gain thousands of likes.
What to get instafamous, pick up a Qoocam, and let's get started.
Step 1 is to connect your phone to your camera.
Now go here to the SuperHDR.
If you don't know the difference between SuperHDR and regular DNG8 or ExpressDNG8 - check out
my first in-depth review and tutorial right here.
In short, you should never use ExpressDNG8 in my opinion.
If anything is moving in your 360 scenes, use regular DNG8.
If you are shooting a Virtual Tour, then SuperHDR and get everyone out of your shot.
So select SuperHDR.
The camera is smart enough to figure out the correct exposure for you - so you don't need
to do anything besides setting your timer.
So set your timer, find a spot to hide, and come back in about 1 minute.
It takes 53 seconds.
Your hard work is done!
Time to collect the money from your clients.
You Pay Now!
I work too hard I want my money.
One Mintue thirty seven seconds later Let me share with you some shooting tips when
capturing in SuperHDR.
Your phone has to be connected to the Qoocam 8K Camera at all times.
The whole process takes 53 seconds, and if any moment you lost connection, the operation
will fail.
Most of the time, you still get the 3 bracketed DNG8 files.
But you won't have the single merged HDR photo on your phone.
So, I will suggest hide in close range or just leave your phone on the tripod leg - which
will be removed later anyway.
After you hear the 3rd shutter sound, you are safe to come out and check your result.
If you now go to your phone App album, the HDR photo is right here.
For professionals, this is when you check your work to make sure you capture everything
correctly.
Qoocam 8K is the ONLY 360 camera that is able to provide the final merged, and tonal map
HDR result immediately after capture.
This is a huge feature for Professional, so you are not shooting blind on set like Ricoh
Theta Z1 right here.
Now let's share our beautiful work on social media.
Before we share tho, let's make sure you turn off Qoocam watermark and nadir patch.
I saw so many photos on the Internet have this free advertisement for Qoocam 8K.
I know you love your camera, but, you better charge Kandao if you are going to get them
free advertisement on your social media.
And if your client sees this, that won't be good.
So go to settings, under App settings, turn off Official Watermark and Nadir Logo.
There are many free apps you can use to paint out the tripod legs directly on Mobile phone.
If you go back to Album, you see the HDR photo already merged and downloaded.
It is ready to be shared on social media.
Click that and pick a filter you like.
Check this out.
WOW.
Pretty cool, right?
This is how I created that falling out of an airplane Tiny planet creative photo.
But here, we are not using any filter, because we don't want to be cheesy.
Look at the outside of the windows and compared it without HDR.
The result is very impressive without any extra works.
Again, you can follow this indepth professional workflow tutorial if you want the max benefit
of HDR.
I am just going to create a Tiny Planet photo for the gram.
Select the correct ratio.
Hit projection to turn it into Tiny Planet.
Hit the share button and share it on Instagram.
You can also download the full 360 photo onto your Phone album right here.
Open up Lightroom mobile, pull down the highlights completely and rise the shadow as there is
minimum noise.
Add extra Chromatic Abberation removal like so and generate an even better image for Facebook
360.
Okay, bonus time.
I can not find any tutorial on YouTube to teach you how to remove tripod leg for a REAL
360 photo.
Everyone is just talking about gimmicky tiny planet photo.
So I decided to show you a very quick and dirty way to remove your tripod legs and upload
it on to Facebook as a true 360 photo.
First make sure you output the SuperHDR photo from Qoocam app.
Download a free app from Ricoh Theta called Edit360.
Open the SuperHDR photo in Edit360.
Now tap down arrow coupled time to pitch your nadir up so you can see your tripod.
Save it.
Now open the photo in Lightroom Mobile.
You know what, no.
Lightroom mobile is not free.
Let's use the free app Snapseed from Google.
Open that photo in snapseed.
Go to Tool and chose Healing.
Now you can use your finger to pinch in the tripod.
Now just like Healing bush in Photoshop, you can paint out the tripod just as easy as in
Desktop photoshop.
Now Export the photo again.
Go back to Edit360 - open the new photo from Snapseed, now revert what you just did by
pinch the photo down until it is level with your horizon.
BTW, this is also how I fix my horizon and set a new starting point.
Edit360 is a powerful app for 360 photos on mobile phone.
Now save again.
Open up Facebook, create a new photo post and upload that 360 photo.
Look at that, all the metadata is correct and you got yourself a 360 photo without touch
a computer.
Also, no tripod leg.
Awesome!
That's it.
Very easy and simple, but really powerful.
I will suggest everyone who owns the Qoocam 8K to try SuperHDR right now and tag me on
Instagram or Facebook 360 to show me your creative works.
If you are Virtual Tour professionals, this workflow does not fix your indoor stitching
problem.
As you see right here, the mobile phone auto stitch and auto-merge does not generate a
perfect result.
There is a noticeable stitching issue right here.
I explain in great details how to fine stitch, merge and color grade for Professional Virtual
Tour right here.
So check out that tutorial right now.
I have one more professional editing workflow tutorial coming out with the Ricoh Theta Z1
- but the same workflow will also work for Qoocam 8K SuperHDR.
That will be a pretty advanced workflow so I will save it for the next tutorial.
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