The string is essentially keeping your camera at a fixed point. Make sure the end piece is always dangling perfectly over the bottle cap when you take a shot. Take your first picture, and then rotate around to the left or right to get the first row. Turn your phone upside-down and insert into the tennis ball with the camera centered and looking out the hole. Start the photosphere application (on your Galaxy Nexus, select the camera, then hold down the camera icon and chose the photosphere icon). Adjust the height of the end piece so it hovers about 2 inches above the bottle cap when you stand. To use the device by itself, hold the tennis ball at chin height, and let the cap fall to the floor. The "poor man's tennis ball photo-sphere helper", laid out on the table. Tie a knock in either side so the three pieces stay connected. Take an 8 foot length of string (should be taller than you are), thread it twice through the end piece (the end piece will be in the middle), then thread one end into the little hole in the tennis ball and the other end into your bottle cap.Use some nail scissors to drill a tiny hole into the bottom of the tennis ball, another though the end piece, and one in the side of the bottle cap.Check that your phone can take picture out the front - you may need to trim the hole wider.
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(the video shows how to mark accurate cutting lines)
Unfortunately, as you're spinning in a circle, and pointing your camera up or down, it gets very difficult to keep your camera lens at a fixed point. Using Android's "photosphere" (part of the new Google Camera) you turn your smartphone to take a photos in every direction, and then it stitches them together into a 360 degree panorama or " photosphere" which you can then interact with and/or upload to Google maps.
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There’s also a switch for saving flat spheres to your Camera Roll, only uploading spheres to Google via Wi-Fi, and setting the resolution of the finished photo.Inserting an Android (camera phone) into the "poor man's tennis ball photo-sphere helper". The app also offers a simple settings section that lets you turn off geotagging of photo spheres altogether, though you won’t be able to publish them to the Web until you set a custom location. For those who would prefer that the location of their sphere be a little abstracted (say, if you don’t want to have a location from your house published on the internet), you can tap the map below your finished sphere to edit the location. There’s no option to publish anonymous spheres-you have to link both your Google+ account and your location data. The flat version of the sphere is automatically saved to your Camera Roll, but to share the actual curved scene, you need to publish it to Google Maps. You can save your finished photo spheres as flat images to your camera roll. You can view your new photo by scrolling around or by tapping the compass button to use the accelerometer to turn your device around the scene. When it’s done, you can preview your new, (mostly) seamlessly-stitched sphere. A single Street View meeple appears during the loading screen, meticulously hanging and straightening white squares in a line. When you finish a photo sphere, Google turns to processing.
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