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The Foldio 360 is a Brilliant, Simple Way of Creating 360 Images

Chris Gampat
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02/17/2016
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Last Updated on 02/17/2016 by Chris Gampat

Foldio 360

Creating 360 images has been really tough to do for many years now. It’s rather intensive because a person literally needs to shoot images all around the product. But a new Kickstarter is trying to change this. It’s called the Foldio 360.

To make it even easier, it’s letting you use your smartphone with an app or a camera using the infrared trigger.

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When you’re all done, the app will stitch the images together, puts it on their website, and you’ll be able to share it from there. It’s pretty cool, and with this opens the genre up to even more creative possibilities rather than the cookie cutter 360 ideas.

If you’re shooting a DSLR or a mirrorless camera, this will obviously be different, but there are ways to make stitching easier. You’d also most likely want to shoot tethered to Adobe Lightroom via your computer, fix all the settings to be completely manual, etc. There is nothing worse than the white balance being off for one image.

The Foldio 360 has its own constant lighting and also has a special light that really makes the product stand out of the background.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.