From the course: Ricoh Theta Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
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Editing a 360° still - Theta Tutorial
From the course: Ricoh Theta Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Editing a 360° still
- I've been poking around on Youtube and Facebook looking at things that people have shot with a Theta, and there's some cool stuff out there. But I gotta say I get really annoyed. Gosh, that makes me sound petty, alright maybe I'm not full on annoyed. I'm just surprised that people aren't treating the Theta they would a normal camera. It's the very rare serious photographer who would just grab something straight out of the camera and post it right online without doing some adjustment to it first. Don't get lazy with the Theta, just because it's 360 doesn't mean that you can't adjust it and doesn't mean that it doesn't need tonal adjustments. Pretty much all of the images I'm pulling out of the Theta need some adjustment because most of the times you're inherently in a very high dynamic range situation. Because with a normal camera you might turn your back to one bright light and shoot in a pretty evenly lit area. With the 360 there's no turning your back to the light, there's always…
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Creating a 360° VR in your smartphone4m 39s
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Transferring images from your Theta2m 56s
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Understanding the Theta file formats5m 52s
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Editing a 360° still9m 44s
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Shooting 360° unwrapped stills4m 55s
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Stitching time-lapses from the Theta7m 14s
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Using THETA to create tiny planets4m 59s
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Correcting the video horizon with the Theta metadata tool5m 56s
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Playback modes in the Theta app2m 58s
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