HDRI Capture Techniques

[homborgor]

Holy shit, I found this video while looking for good ways to make HDRIs and didnt realise it was Louis from CGBoost

[christianthea]

Hi, nice video, very informative. where can i get the miror ball please?

[aksi]

with the mirabal youre only capturing one side of the ball. is there a way to capture the other side as well and stitch them together?

[EstherZuidgeest]

Hi Louis, thanks for the informative video. I am wondering about the chrome ball/mirror ball technique. Doesn't taking a photo of a chrome ball only capture a 180 degree surrounding? How do you get a full cubemap out of that?

[catsnorkel]

Im working on an nd filter for the theta s to fix the problem with the limited stops

[JMtheCONQUERER]

just curious. If you took a picture of the reflective gazing ball to raw DNG you would only have to take one pic right? Then the exposure can be adjusted in photoshop to save and combine together?
I need all the help I can get right now. I dont have deep enough pockets for anything expensive lol. Great vid though.

[MANIAKRA]

Great comparison, thank you. This video is 3 years old now, any new recommendations or updated preferences?
I'm debating picking up a Theta Z1 or continue to save up for a full $4k camera rig.

[BlackburnZ_INDIA]

What is the dimension of christmas ball 🤔 4cm 3 cm ??

[madballdesign]

wondering why can't I get sharp shadow from 360 camera made 32bit hdris

[lobos]

Thanks for this, its amazing, where do you recomend i buy the chrome ball? Is this for lighting the subject or just for reflections?

[TheBaseUK]

Hey man, great tutorial! I know this is an old video but I have a quick question, for the chrome ball technique, I'd like to take two angles of shooting to cover the absolute full 360° range of lighting (although I know you can just take the pictures from one side). I was wondering how you can do this through Photoshop, and if flexify can be used for this process also? Like how can you successfully stitch the two sets of photos together to make the panorama, and then put that in to flexify if that makes sense? Would be really thankful if you could help me out!

[EstherZuidgeest]

Another question i have: do you invert the map when its used as environment lighting?

[Screamus]

So Theta S shoots jpegs that can be merged to HDR, then used for lighting?

Isn't it better to use raw images?

I use a dslr and shoot raw to create HDRIs, but it's such a long process.

I'm looking into the mi sphere because it's a 360 camera that shoots raw.

[shavfx]

Hi, what do you think the best 360 camera is now for hrdi's? insta 360 x2?

[Mosizzle]

Did you use a program to take bracketed photos with the Theta S?

[umanngverma]

What exactly was your process for using DSLR? if you can shed any light on it that will be really helpful. 😅

[Mvjesty]

So I can use my remotely programmed gimbal, a wide angle lens and software to create my HDRIs? Say less

[albertoluque.workout]

Thanks a lot. Could you recomend a camera and lens?

[gaips]

Do you have an updated technique of bracketed HDRi? The new Ricoh Theta Z1 has raw. Have you used it?