Hi all,
So I've been doing a few 360 Panoramas. I actually like the process of creating these more than taking video and putting something together afterwards.
I have always found that the quality of the 360 panorama from the Go 4 app has not been the best, so now I use teh folloiwing method:-
Import images into Microsoft's I.C.E. and run through the program on auto
Import into Lightroom Clasic and make adjustments
Import into Photoshop and resize to a 2:1 ratio by increasing the canvas area of the sky
Select feather and fill with content aware.
Make some minor global adjustments and touch ups, sharpen, noise reduction.
Use offset to clean up any join areas
Import the image in Photoshop as a 3D sphere so I can clean up the upper nodel point.
Export image and upload to Google Street View.
Anyway, I want to see how far I could push the sensor of the Spark with the ordinary JPeg images it produces in low light. I would say 800 ISO is the limit, but even then the shadow areas lose all details, and there is a fair bit of noise coming into the image. 400 ISO is still pretty noisy. The only problem is in low light if I dropped teh shutter speed lower than 1/15 sec then I start getting image blur, especially if teh Spark is in any wind as it just moves around to much for those shutter speeds.
Just so you can have a look at teh difference between a 400 ISO image and an 800 ISO image here are the links:-
400 ISO Google Maps
800 ISO Google Maps
Anyway, I'd love to hear from others how to acheive good quality images in low light with the Spark, or am I asking too much?
PS:- I've also attached some 180 degree panoramas that I took all at 800 ISO from the same loaction at The Star Casino at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast Australia.
Cheers Adam
So I've been doing a few 360 Panoramas. I actually like the process of creating these more than taking video and putting something together afterwards.
I have always found that the quality of the 360 panorama from the Go 4 app has not been the best, so now I use teh folloiwing method:-
Import images into Microsoft's I.C.E. and run through the program on auto
Import into Lightroom Clasic and make adjustments
Import into Photoshop and resize to a 2:1 ratio by increasing the canvas area of the sky
Select feather and fill with content aware.
Make some minor global adjustments and touch ups, sharpen, noise reduction.
Use offset to clean up any join areas
Import the image in Photoshop as a 3D sphere so I can clean up the upper nodel point.
Export image and upload to Google Street View.
Anyway, I want to see how far I could push the sensor of the Spark with the ordinary JPeg images it produces in low light. I would say 800 ISO is the limit, but even then the shadow areas lose all details, and there is a fair bit of noise coming into the image. 400 ISO is still pretty noisy. The only problem is in low light if I dropped teh shutter speed lower than 1/15 sec then I start getting image blur, especially if teh Spark is in any wind as it just moves around to much for those shutter speeds.
Just so you can have a look at teh difference between a 400 ISO image and an 800 ISO image here are the links:-
400 ISO Google Maps
800 ISO Google Maps
Anyway, I'd love to hear from others how to acheive good quality images in low light with the Spark, or am I asking too much?
PS:- I've also attached some 180 degree panoramas that I took all at 800 ISO from the same loaction at The Star Casino at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast Australia.
Cheers Adam
