I'm here in Kyoto today, and today's video is going to be about shooting RAW!
I've got three cameras. There are currently three right now, point and shoot
cameras that shoot raw 360 photos. So I thought I'd take them for a spin at
three amazing locations around Kyoto, and see what kinds of results we can get in
mixed lighting situations. Hey- check out this place.. how cool is this? 360 degree views.
So I think this is the perfect place to shoot our first 360. Oh, look who it is.
It's Joost. And you may have seen this guy on Instagram, x.ploring_360.
- That's me.
So without further ado, let's go shoot some raw photos.
Wait! Wait just a minute.
I should probably explain what raw actually is for those of you who don't
understand the difference between raw and JPEG. When you shoot JPEG, you're
essentially shooting an image with all the colors, contrast, and what-not, baked
into the image, which makes it harder to color correct and recover detail from
shadows and highlights. With raw, it captures a lot more information about
your scene, making it easier to color- correct later on. So, if your shadows turn
to black, you can then recover them and make them properly exposed. If your
highlights are turned to white, same thing. You can recover those highlights.
At the end of the day, this means your exposure is going to be almost perfect,
which is why it's a really good idea to shoot raw if your camera allows it.
I'm back in my Airbnb now, and real quick, I want to show you how I process my RAW
files. Firstly, how I stitch them, and then, how I color-correct them. We are going to do
them one by one. So first off. let's do the Fusion. So the workflow for the
Fusion is color-correct first, stitch second. So as you can see, I've copied my
files over from my two SD cards into a folder on my laptop. And these, they all look
the same, right? But if you look really closely you'll see the first two are
GPBK, the second two are GPFR. This means front and back. So what i'm going
to do is select both of the GPR files, which are front and back, and i'm going
to drag them simultaneously into Photoshop. And in Photoshop, I edit in
Adobe Camera Raw. That's the extension for Photoshop that allows you to get a
lot of control over your RAW files. And as you can see on the left, it's imported
both of them. And we want to edit these at the same time, so the exact same color
adjustments apply to both images at once. So I'll press shift and select both of
them. And when I do a massive change like that, you can see on the left, they both
changed accordingly. Now it's up to you to make your color adjustments over here.
You can also do this in Lightroom. Just follow the same process, and make sure
you're color-correcting both files at once. When you're done, go open images and
we want to save these as JPEGs. And we now want to save these to the same
folder as before. However having the exact file name is going to be super
important for these steps, and make sure you pay close attention. What you'll need
to do is add an underscore GPR in capitals to your file. Yes, it's a JPEG, but
we're saving it as underscore GPR.JPEG for both our front and back photos.
Then we're going to make sure we have as much resolution as possible, and go 'OK'.
So here we have our folder. You should have six files in it. Even though this is
only going to turn into one photo, we have our GoPro RAW files from before. We
have our JPEGs that were already there. It's important that you don't delete
those. And we have our new JPEGs of our edited photos. Now we're going to open up
Fusion studio, and go 'File', 'Open' RAW photos. Hey, the workflow is written here
in case you forget anything, or if something's not quite working. Refer to
this, and it'll show you exactly what to do. Now hit 'GOT IT', and now we
get to the photo folder and go 'Open'. There we go, Fusion studio has found our
RAW file, and now we can edit it. And we can add that to the render queue, and
export as we normally would a photo.. Next, I'm going to stitch my Insta360 One RAW files,
and this is really easy. I've put the Micro SD card into a card reader, and
it's really as simple as dragging the DNG files into Insta360 studio. So when
you choose the RAW option on the camera, it records both INSP files and
DNG. So this is essentially JPEG and RAW. And we're going to drag our DNGs
into Insta360 studio, which is free. So let's go ahead, and drag it in. At the top
left, you can see it's confirmed that it is a RAW file. So now we are going to go
ahead and export to our desktop. Simple as that. Next, let's stitch Mi Sphere
RAW files. And, I have to go catch a flight. This is awkward.
So with the Mi sphere, there's two different workflows for Mac and PC. Whereas the other two
cameras have the exact same workflow . So if you're on PC, you will want to download the
free Mi Sphere software, I'll link it down there. And that will stitch your RAW
or DNGs in about a minute or so, If you're on Mac, it's not so easy. But it's
easy-ish. So I'm gonna show you how to do it right here, right now, before I board
my flight. So there's a sneaky little program you can download called MADV
PICTURE STITCH, and it's not a program so much as it is a file structure. So I've
got it here on my desktop, and I will include the download link in the
description, If you're on Mac. So you check that out. So essentially, all you need to
do is open it up, and navigate to the original folder. Now we're going to go to
our SD card drive, and you'll see JPEGs and DNGs in that folder. Drag the DNG
from your memory card into the original folder. Next we're going to open up the
file that says MADV PICTURE STITCH. And this is what's going to begin the
stitching of our DNG file.
And this is what's going to begin the stitching of our DNG file. So, now all we
need to do, is double click MADV Picture Stitch, and everything in the original
folder is now going to be stitched and put into the stitch folder. So now that
we've stitched photos from all three cameras, how do we edit them? Well it's a
very good question, and it's something that is going to totally transform your
images from flat and boring into colorful, vibrant and amazing. But I'm
about to board my flight from Osaka to Tokyo. So, I gotta run. so give me a few seconds.
Okay so here's how I color- correct. And look, there are many color
correction tutorials out there, so I'm going to keep this brief. But I just want to
show you guys real quick what you can do when you color-correct you RAW file and
how much latitude you have to really enhance your colors and fixed,
underexposed, or overexposed images. So here's my Insta360 One DNG file that I've
brought into Adobe Camera Raw. And straightaway, the first place I go, is the
shadows and the highlights. Firstly, I'm going to bring the shadows right up. And,
already, I can see a much better exposed image. Now highlight. They're going to go
down, you know it. And look at that. Look at the clarity of those clouds before,
after. You don't want to overdo it. But you do want to bring back as much detail as you
can. Next I'm going to go for the vibrance and bring that up. And the
difference between vibrance and saturation is with vibrance, it takes
into account skin tones. It doesn't over- saturate your skin. Whereas if you boost
the saturation, it's going to make you several shades darker. So I'm only going
to boost the saturation a little bit. But I will bring the vibrance up quite a bit.
So we can really bring those greens to life. I'm going to go up with my exposure a
little bit too. Because I still feel like it's a little bit dark, and I might even
go a little bit higher on the shadows to really bring out the details in those
trees and in the water. Now, there's a little magical button down here that
will show you the before and after. This is before, that's after. How incredible
does that look? I honestly can't believe my eyes that this RAW DNG file from
the Insta360 One has totally transformed this image, and made this something I'd
be super proud to publish anywhere. This, my friends, is the power of
shooting raw. While I did expose this image pretty well, some cameras just
don't do the best job at exposing, which is where Raw will have your back.
There are actually lots of apps you can edit your RAW files in. They're Adobe Suite
and my favorite. I like using Photoshop and Lightroom. They're both excellent. But
there are free ones as well. You can use just basic color correction inside of
the free photo apps for both Mac and PC. There are many different workflows for
both stitching and editing RAW photos. This was mine, if you have a different
one, leave it in the comments below. I will be very interested to hear it. But it's
actually surprisingly easy, and you can get an excellent result with a very
cheap point-and-shoot 360 camera that shoots RAW. And on that note, I've got a
flight to catch. So hit that subscribe button, if you're not subscribed already.
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... in the next video
See what I did there?
Yeah, I'm getting pretty good at this whole editing thing.
It took me long enough!
k, bye!