7 tips for shooting great 360 photos with your smartphone

[Anonymous]

Nan-yo-in Falls, 南陽院清滝　Android smartphone

I always use monopod and ball chain. Yes, it is usually set in the bathtab.

My tutorial is here. Enjoy it, @SonyaN

Toyo

[Gvipin]

Thanks

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.9490111,84.0093471,0a,75y,175.5h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAF1QipOTDyp... Check out Sher Shah Tomb Shared via the #StreetView app

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.9490111,84.0093471,0a,75y,175.5h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAF1QipOTDyp...

[Csaba]

Great tips, @SonyaN, thanks!

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@LucioV wrote:

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ensure to be in airplane mode while shooting: receiving a call, or a notification, could break down the workflow, resulting in inconsistent results

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Oh yeah, definitely! I have been there myself. Actually I was also recording the action for a tutorial video and all was destroyed by an incoming phone call.

[DavidTito]

@LucioV wow fantastic tips I never thought about airplane mode that makes so much sense, but even having airplane mode on using my Ricoh ThetaV would it still be practical?

Could this image be perfected using your tips, this photo was taken with Ricoh ThetaV 4k whats your opinion? 

[HUMBERTO_V]

Castillo de Quermançó, Vilajuïga, Catalonia Spain.

https://goo.gl/maps/HHWDBm22Ye12

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1521809748979!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE5idDcyTEJLQVNvLVFxcDNU..." width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[HUMBERTO_V]

@SonyaN I can not insert the 360 photo here , how can I do it?

[SonyaN]

Hi @HUMBERTO_V,

Thanks for tagging me. Currently, only Street View trusted photographers and moderators can embed 360 images on Connect. But please share a link to your photo with us 🙂 We'd love to see it and we hope that you'll be joining us as trusted soon!

[HUMBERTO_V]

@SonyaN Thank you, because I own a website, I was going crazy! I hope that one day Google will trust me, hahaha.

[LucioV]

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@DavidTito wrote:

@LucioV wow fantastic tips I never thought about airplane mode that makes so much sense, but even having airplane mode on using my Ricoh ThetaV would it still be practical?

Could this image be perfected using your tips, this photo was taken with Ricoh ThetaV 4k whats your opinion? 

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Hi @DavidTito! Thanks! The answer is no, the tips in this thread doesn't apply to Ricoh Theta photography, but only to 360 shoot with SV app! 🙂

Here is another sample from my contributions, my most viewed 360, around 500K views, despite some minor stitching errors 🙂

[HUMBERTO_V]

Today I tried to take a picture on an athletics track. My surprise has been great when I wanted to upload the 360 photo to google street view, I got a message that said: Google Street does not operate in this area.
My question is: can google consider the area as private @SonyaN?