This is the first video that explain hdri creation in the right way with a 360 camera. Thanks a lot for all the information, you deserve more subscribers
You can also use affinity photos Hdr merge. Affinity is a really good and cheap photoshop alternative. I tried to make Hdri with insta evo, but iso100 and 1/8000 was not nearly dark enough to see only the brightest sun point at outside environement situation.
Thanks for putting this video together. I would love to see the quality of the HDRI generated using your technique. Is there any chance you could upload an example HDRI to dropbox or google drive? Great video!
Thanks a lot for this, I needed this, I wanted to know if you know how this camera compare with the theta? I saw a really good image from it. The DSLR with nodal pan is time consuming.
I shoot hdr's and my company bought the new insta 360 RS camera with the interchangeable lenses. It works great, but make sure to buy it with the 360 lens. I own the 360 one X and from everything I've read it's raw quality is as good as the Theta. Advantages are you can buy an additional battery and memory card.
I believe he is using the Insta360 brand stick and tripod, that are on the Insta360 website and sometimes come with the camera if you buy it as a package or something
Thanks for this video. I wonder if the darkest exposure (1/8000 @ ISO 100) is dark enough to avoid clipping on typical studio lights. Do you have some examples of that kind ?
Thanks for the video, do you know why after exporting the HDRI from photoshop the color looks differents and the image is very very dark or underexposed ? Thanks for help
Is the quality really aplicable with glossy reflections, say, car paint or glass? I did some HDRIs with an iphone a while back and while they were fine for lighting the scene, the reflections were too smudgy and low-res for anything meaningful.
The Insta360 One X and X2 should have a hdr/bracketing feature built in so it does it all at once really fast, but depending on your scenes brightness you might want to manually take an extra photo at the fastest speed so you get that pinpoint lighting. But do the rest of the process manually instead of using the desktop apps merged version
They will leave behind “ghosts” but they shouldn’t impact the overall HDRI too negatively. The more brackets you make the more these moving objects will be averaged out and ultimately less visible in the final image.
Thanks. Is there no automatic / burst mode for capturing the different exposure brackets? I mean, that you setup the different brackets in advance and then the camera captures all brackets automatically one after another...?
@@JWPanimation That's interesting. Does it store all of the brackets as RAWs or does it auto merge them into a 32bit image? Because often these commercial 360 cameras do neither of those things and just generate an 8bit JPG from the resulting brackets, which is obviously quite a lot less useful than a proper 32bit HDRI. It would be a very nice tool if it made a true 32bit image. Thanks for the reply.
@@felixgeen6543 it auto brackets saving a .dng raw file for each exposure. You have to then stich these dual fish eyes using their software. The final step is to use photoshop or other software to create the 32 bit extra or hdr.
It could be a colourspace issue. Most likely your images from the camera are SRGB. So when you turn the images into 32bit they become linear SRGB probably. You need to tell your DCC to interpret them as such
Thanks for making this tutorial :) Hey, so I've created a few like this and when on a sunny day with direct sunlight the shadows are long and harsh as expected, although the results from my HDRI do not reproduce those same shadows. I have to manually add a tiny point of light where the sun is located in the HDRI using the exposure tool in Photoshop. Do you have any insight here?
@@davidmcsween Well, they are there! If you create a 32bit float exr and select linear as the color space in blender, the harsh shadows are there and as expected...the problem is the rest of the image then gets distorted because of the linear setting.
@@davidmcsween colours and brightness / contrast. In other words, in linear mode, I get the shadows I want but the rest of the HDRI is useless. I mention that because that means they are there! But how to get both?
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
This is the first video that explain hdri creation in the right way with a 360 camera. Thanks a lot for all the information, you deserve more subscribers
Clean, Crisp and Short. Thanks Felix!
Thanks bro. I just bought an X4 Insta 360
Thanks for the clear tut, I can finally find a good use again for my Insta cam. :)
Only 26 subscribers? Underrated!
My first hdr it was 2015 with the first Ricoh theta... ❤️❤️❤️
thank you felix! great tutorial
Beautifully explained!
You can also use affinity photos Hdr merge. Affinity is a really good and cheap photoshop alternative.
I tried to make Hdri with insta evo, but iso100 and 1/8000 was not nearly dark enough to see only the brightest sun point at outside environement situation.
yeah its def not low enough, did you find anything to navigate that
Super cool of you of creating this tutorial
Thanks a lot, really useful!
Greetings!
Thanks for putting this video together. I would love to see the quality of the HDRI generated using your technique. Is there any chance you could upload an example HDRI to dropbox or google drive? Great video!
Done, check the description for a download link
Thanks a lot for this, I needed this, I wanted to know if you know how this camera compare with the theta? I saw a really good image from it. The DSLR with nodal pan is time consuming.
I shoot hdr's and my company bought the new insta 360 RS camera with the interchangeable lenses. It works great, but make sure to buy it with the 360 lens. I own the 360 one X and from everything I've read it's raw quality is as good as the Theta.
Advantages are you can buy an additional battery and memory card.
Awesome video, thanks for that, super useful
Solid tutorial, nicely done.
clean tutorial, thanks a lot
very underrated.
Phenomenal! Thank you so much!
Do you have a link for the tripod or name of it? Thanks
I want to know this as well
I believe he is using the Insta360 brand stick and tripod, that are on the Insta360 website and sometimes come with the camera if you buy it as a package or something
@@EyeMCreative thanks
I use a Manfrotto 209 sn/c2821827 tripod with the Insta360 selfie stick. Got both at B&H. Works great and is light weight.
Thanks for your summary. I took a HDRI picture with the Insta360 and it saves every single pictures as png. Do you think it will make a difference?
I have issues with the stitching, it isn't consistent, what could be the issue?
Thanks for this video. I wonder if the darkest exposure (1/8000 @ ISO 100) is dark enough to avoid clipping on typical studio lights. Do you have some examples of that kind ?
Thanks for the video, do you know why after exporting the HDRI from photoshop the color looks differents and the image is very very dark or underexposed ? Thanks for help
Is the quality really aplicable with glossy reflections, say, car paint or glass? I did some HDRIs with an iphone a while back and while they were fine for lighting the scene, the reflections were too smudgy and low-res for anything meaningful.
Is your 360 camera x1 or x2？ I’m hesitating which one to buy coz I just wanna take hdri pictures
Perfecto!
Great tut. How would you achieve this with an exterior location? Clouds moving and shadows shifting would create ghosting?
The Insta360 One X and X2 should have a hdr/bracketing feature built in so it does it all at once really fast, but depending on your scenes brightness you might want to manually take an extra photo at the fastest speed so you get that pinpoint lighting. But do the rest of the process manually instead of using the desktop apps merged version
hey guys i tried this but im getting black and white output instead of colour?? help me out
Is there an automatic shooting mode for multiple exposure bracketing? Or only manually like you showed?
Would this also work with an outdoor scene with objects moving that I have no control of (cars, trees, people crossing...)?
They will leave behind “ghosts” but they shouldn’t impact the overall HDRI too negatively. The more brackets you make the more these moving objects will be averaged out and ultimately less visible in the final image.
@@felixgeen6543 Many thanks for sharing your knowledge
In a GreenScreen set wouldn’t you turn of the GreenScreen lighting if possible ?
Thanks. Is there no automatic / burst mode for capturing the different exposure brackets? I mean, that you setup the different brackets in advance and then the camera captures all brackets automatically one after another...?
there are a bunch of third party apps for the RICOH THETA that do this, but none for the Insta 360 that I know of.
@@felixgeen6543 I believe the model 360 One RS does auto bracketing.
@@JWPanimation That's interesting. Does it store all of the brackets as RAWs or does it auto merge them into a 32bit image? Because often these commercial 360 cameras do neither of those things and just generate an 8bit JPG from the resulting brackets, which is obviously quite a lot less useful than a proper 32bit HDRI. It would be a very nice tool if it made a true 32bit image. Thanks for the reply.
@@felixgeen6543 it auto brackets saving a .dng raw file for each exposure. You have to then stich these dual fish eyes using their software. The final step is to use photoshop or other software to create the 32 bit extra or hdr.
@@JWPanimation that's awesome! I might have to get one of those cams then :)
10:16 after this step my hdri is completly over contrasted in photoshop ?
Can you show me a screenshot of your settings on this screen? Maybe I can help
@@felixgeen6543 sure, can i have ur gmail so i can send you a screenshot
i'm not sure i understand. why couldn't you just import the DNGs directly into photoshop? why did you have to take it into Insta360 Studio?
I'm wondering that too :)
Is there an alternative app to Photoshop CC?
Thank youuu
In the viewport, the colors appear to be missing compared to before exporting to radiance in Photoshop.
Is this normal?
It could be a colourspace issue. Most likely your images from the camera are SRGB. So when you turn the images into 32bit they become linear SRGB probably. You need to tell your DCC to interpret them as such
Has this workflow changed anything during the last 3 years?
it should all still work the same way yes. As long as you can shoot RAWs with your 360 camera then you can follow along with this.
Thanks for making this tutorial :) Hey, so I've created a few like this and when on a sunny day with direct sunlight the shadows are long and harsh as expected, although the results from my HDRI do not reproduce those same shadows. I have to manually add a tiny point of light where the sun is located in the HDRI using the exposure tool in Photoshop. Do you have any insight here?
I doubt that a HDRI will recreate parallel sun rays.
@@davidmcsween Well, they are there! If you create a 32bit float exr and select linear as the color space in blender, the harsh shadows are there and as expected...the problem is the rest of the image then gets distorted because of the linear setting.
@@MattScottVisuals distorted how?
@@davidmcsween colours and brightness / contrast. In other words, in linear mode, I get the shadows I want but the rest of the HDRI is useless. I mention that because that means they are there! But how to get both?
@@davidmcsween also, hi :)
But how to remove tripod legs?
In my experience it doesn’t really matter so much. But you can use clone stamp
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Nurse, one has escaped.....
All the effort and you tested it with cube....
I was hoping to see a sphere at least :) Still, fantastic video, explanation and highly appreciated :)