2022
Hi all, I wrote something similar in the past, but I would like to resume all the tips here.
We are discussing about how to take great 360 using your smartphone and Street View App.
1) Ensure you have enough battery: if a low battery popup will prompt while shooting you could lose all the progress done
2) Ensure to have enough free archive space and RAM, as stitching phase take a lot of resources; if not, the result could be an incomplete stitching, without any chance to recover
3) Always, always, rotate YOU around the phone (ideally around the lens), and not the phone around you; this will reduce the parallax errors for near objects. You can attach a string to the phone, and attach a weight to this string, pointing the ground; you should keep the weight always in the same position.
4) If you can, avoid near objects (furniture, rocks, etc.): stitching is always critical in these situation. Inside shots are always critical in this way
5) If you can, avoid having moving people around: the result could easily be a disaster of legs and heads all around your pano or duplicates. If you want you can play with duplicates, but try to place each people in just one single shot
6) Avoid excessive contrast in the scene; the stitching process also perform some normalization, resulting in a overall good exposure, but this function could not make miracles
7) Ideally, put your smartphone in airplane mode, before start shooting the photosphere: an incoming phone call or a message could stop the procedure, resulting in an incomplete 360
😎 Last but not least, not all smartphones are suitable for 360 photography, due to the lack of gyroscope or compass; some are simply bad in doing this (i.e. my Google Pixel 2 XL is a disaster, maybe due to the bad compass) and some others are great (like my iphone 7)
I will add other tips as long as I find or remember.
Happy 360 photography, enjoy this smartphone 360!
iPhone 7 is just awesome in 360 photography 🙂
I am using the same.
btw, thank you so much for writing all these tips with us.
