From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours

What you should know before watching the course

From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours

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What you should know before watching the course

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- With 360-degree panoramic photography, it's a bit of a complex subject. We're gonna do our best to break it down and make it easy to learn, but you really need to sort of meet us halfway. It's a good idea that you have a basic familiarity with some of the core concepts of your camera. - [Left Man] It's important to be comfortable with things like using your camera in manual mode, being comfortable setting shutter speed, ISO and aperture, and understanding the relationship of those three things. I would also recommend understanding how to set your camera for bracketing. - Now of course for many cameras you'll find detailed courses available here in the online library, and you can check out courses from folks like Ben Long to walk you through some of these foundation skills. We're gonna assume that you have a basic foundation, and that you're comfortable with your camera. You're just looking to learn the specifics of 360-degree photography, and there's a lot to that. If you're just interested in general panoramic photography, or you want to get a little bit more primer skills down, make sure you check out the Getting Started with Panoramic Photography course available here as well. That'll walk you through a lot of different shooting situations, not 360, but a lot of important things. You'll also find a lot of coverage for some of the tools like Photoshop and Lightroom, available in the library. Now Ron, you've taught panoramic photography to many other photographers, what are some of the things where they tend to find sticking points, or where they stumble with the initial learning process. - [Ron] Exposing for panoramic photography is different because we're rotating, and there's different light, typically, on different sides of the camera. Post processing is also something that can be a little bit intimidating but doesn't have to be. - Make sure you've got those core skills down. Be comfortable with your camera. Make sure that tools like Photoshop and Lightroom are not completely new to you. And if you feel like you've got the foundations down, let's go forward and start to explore panoramic photography in 360 degrees.

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