Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1208

[Elliott Swanson <elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John B, thanks for the good words re my pics. If only there was more time 
to get out on the road and really give the camera a workout...

At the Puget Sound Stereo Camera Club meeting last weekend I managed to
arrive too late to see a computer controlled 3D show on Michigan, but I
did see a photo that was out of someone's first or second roll of film
thru a stereo camera. It showed a bird's eye view of the first few feet of
two boat bows coming at each other. The camera's film plane must have been
perfectly flat to the plane of the almost ripple free water-- perhaps shot
from a low bridge. I'd guess the distance wasn't much over 7-10 feet from
the water. With nothing to cause problems with distance, the bows had the
illusion of being towers extending out of the water, which was so deep
blue and non reflective I suspected polarizers were used, and a high
f-stop. There were colored stripes and decorations on each boat that gave
the photo style and punch. The image was perfectly mounted behind the
stereo window. I'd have made the hour drive to see that one image alone
(and file away the technique to steal :) I suspect this isn't the first
time this composition has been photographed, but it has seldom been done
so well. It would have been an average/good planar photograph. But the
perfect application of stereoscopy made it extraordinary. In the
breakdown-and-pack-it-up confusion at the end of the meeting I never did
find out who took it. 

Greg, and other PSSCC people, know whose photo it was?

--Elliott



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