360 Real Estate Photography Tutorial – free course part 4

This is the360 Real Estate Photography Tutorial – free course part 4 using “One Click” cameras. NOT DSLR.

In these series of 4 videos I will give you the best advise and tricks on how to shoot and create Virtual Tours for Real Estate using Virtual Tours Creator. The series includes:

– tripod set up
– stitch line and camera positioning
– exposure settings
– lighting
– hallway photography
– kitchen, bedroom, living, outside house photography
– obstacle avoidance
– proper hot spots placement in virtual tours
– windows and mirrors in vr

5. Small spaces and avoiding objects

In today’s tutorial I’m gonna talk about camera distance from the walls, camera versus mirrors, a few more examples of exposure in bathroom and dining rooms, kitchen photography, and how to avoid obstacles on the floor around the house.

• I’ve now transferred myself magically to the bathroom. And, fortunately, it’s a tiny bathroom, I can’t fit in that camera inside to show you everything. So I’m just gonna talk about it, so please pay attention, and watch what I’m doing with the camera. I could, obviously, shoot it in 360, but then it would be difficult to present it to everyone as a normal video. So, let’s start with placing the camera in the tripod. I will just tell you that over here in front of me there’s a mirror. There’s a mirror on the whole wall. And you might have watched other tutorials on the mirrors, so you would know how to set up the camera against the mirror. But if you didn’t let’s do it this time. And first of all we have to have that camera probably right in the middle of the room. Don’t put it too close to the walls because how our Virtual Tours Creator system is setup is that when you walk in from the hallway to this bathroom you’re gonna be looking directly opposite the way to where you came from. So, if you’re gonna have the camera or the tripod here close to the wall because you think you will see more of this side of the bathroom, and somebody’s gonna walk into this bathroom, they’re gonna look at the wall, okay? This is not the view that you want. That’s why you try, always, to keep it right in the middle, so people have some space to breathe. Also, the 360 image is gonna automatically pan around, so even if you’re looking at that corner it’s gonna get out of that view, and gonna look at where you want them to look, but not to have the whole camera in the middle. Instead of pointing it this way, and you can see the whole camera, you can always turn it around, and have the edge of the camera looking at the mirror so that it kind of disappears from the image. But as we said before the most important thing is what you want to show your customers. So you probably are interested in this sphere, where the basin is, and the cupboards, and the mirror. And you don’t want that stitching line being in the middle of your view. You always have to watch the down lights to see if there’s no lines. But as I said before, the lines are secondary. The main thing is to point the camera so that you have the main point of view in one lens. Okay, so something like that exactly where you are sitting and watching me, that’s how we point the camera. And that should give us a beautiful 360 image of the whole bathroom. Obviously, you can play with the exposure because it might be a bit darkish. Then you would set up the exposure to let’s say plus half or plus one. You can see it in that preview live.
• We’re back in the living, dining, and kitchen section. And as you remember we had the tripod probably just about where you’re standing to take the photo of the living room and the hallway on the crossroads of everything. So now we want to take one photo of the dining room, and also one photo of the kitchen from what I call the outside.
• We have to remember that you always, no matter what, have to take two photos of the kitchen, one from the outside so you can see how it looks like, and then one of the inside, which we’re gonna do in the next step. Because your viewers want to exactly see how the kitchen looks from inside, how the cupboards, how the drawers look like, or what appliances you have in the kitchen. And in here I would just show you two settings to play with exposure. So, the first photo is the exposure set up to zero. And the second exposure is minus one just to dim down the windows a bit. And that should give you an idea of what you’d prefer. It’s getting a bit late and darkish, so I have to hurry up because we’re gonna need some more light. It’s probably our last location, the kitchen. As I mentioned before, you have to have one right in the middle of the kitchen, so let’s set up the tripod in the middle so the viewers can see everything. The only thing that you would have to check now is if it’s not too dark. So you should open your app, and go to the exposure as I showed you before. Open it up, and I’m gonna take two photos, one with the zero exposure. You can see it now, it might be a bit dark. So I’m gonna go the opposite way, and gonna brighten up the room, and gonna shoot one with plus one. That’s how it looks with plus one. You can see that the lower cupboards in the kitchen are a bit brighter, although the windows might get a bit blown. It’s your decision, again, what’s right, what’s wrong, these are just my hints.
• One last thing, always remember to take the photo of the back of the house. Unfortunately, just started training so I won’t be able to go to the garden. But, normally, I would put the tripod right in the middle of it so you can see the whole house. From the back you can see how beautiful this deck is. And you can see the garden, the neighbors’ houses, and whatever’s surrounding the property. But for now we’re just gonna take one foot off the deck. You could also take a separate photo of the deck, and then of the garden if it’s a big property like this one. All you have to do is put it right in the middle and press the magic button.
• One very important thing that you may not pay much attention to is the problem with putting the tripod too close to any object. In Virtual Tours Creator we have an that automatically covers the tripod with a circle logo of your choice. So, you have to remember that if you’re gonna have the tripod you’re trying to put the tripod always in the middle of the room. But sometimes you’re gonna have a nice chair, or a couch, or a table standing next to it. And you don’t really want to put the tripod against any of those objects because then you’re gonna have your logo sitting on top of it. So in such case you should probably move the tripod away from any object if possible around 30 to 40 centimeters. And that’s gonna solve the problem of covering any object with the , thank you.

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