Introduction to 360 Degree Photography. Welcome to Reality through Photography

Hi friends,

Today, I am going to explain you what is 360 Degree Photography and how you can take a 360 Photo. How you can influence your business through 360 Degree Photographs. What are the best cameras available in market right now. Let's get started.

WHAT IS 360 DEGREE PHOTOGRAPHY ?
360 Degree Photography is nothing but a Panorama Image but taken at 360 degree. In your phone camera, you might have seen a option Panorama, which takes a 180 Degree image. You may ask, Can I take 2 180 degree image and merge them in 360 ? Yes ! You can combine two panos and make them as 360 image but top and bottom can't be taken. Again, If I take top to bottom 360 and combine them, will it possible to make a 360 image. That's the real method.

But you should take '2' 180 degree horizontally and 'n' number of photos vertically. You should merge them accordingly. How THESE IMAGES BE COMBINED ?

360 DEGREE PHOTO STITCHING :
There are so many software to do stitching. In Photoshop you can do stitching by combing panorama images into one. PTGui is the leading software to do stitching. HOW ACCURATE STITCHING CAN BE DONE ? Here the accuracy is your overlapping. You should take images with almost 20 overlapping with successive images at the starting and ending.

360 DEGREE PHOTOS IN YOUR PHONE :
You can use your phone to take 360 Degree photos with your phone itself. Just download Google Street View App :
https://goo.gl/RLqrFR

Open the App and Press Camera+ Button and click Camera to start taking your 360 Degree Photos. Just Rotate your camera according to the points and your 360 image will be ready. These points are made with the automatic overlapping of 20% of previous and next images.

360 DEGREE CAMERA :
Many company have started to design new 360 Camera. RICOH theta is the foremost to produce consumer based 360 Device. It changed the whole perspective. Now Samsung, LG, Gopro started to enter into this market. They are making cheap consumer level 360 Camera.
Google Jump is the new Project, through which immerse 360 Degree Experience can be obtained. They are designing their own rigs and they are using gopro as their camera.

360 DEGREE PHOTOS IN YOUR ACTION CAMERA :
Yes, you can. There are so many 3d model available in market to take 360 Degree Photos using your action camera itself. So many kickstarter projects are there.

I am going to show you the DIY method of doing 360 Degree Photos using your action camera in the next post.

If you want to do 360 images professionally. Then please comment down below. I will create a post regarding high quality images with your dslr and how to stitch them and publish them in Street View and even hosting online with so many offline virtual tour providers.

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