B & W; texture & patterns in stereo

[telscope@xxxxxxxxxx (Peter Abrahams)]

>Also, it seems to me that a lot of what I like about B&W has to
>do with capturing texture, which you already get in spades from
>stereo...  Maybe the latter is actually an
>argument for doing certain kinds of B&W shots in stereo... -Jim C.
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>there's a way in which 3D enhances black-and-white photography more
> than it does color.  It seems to me that the depth
>information in a stereo image helps in many cases to separate the subject
>from the background or whatever else is in the picture.  Color provides an
>additional way (along with many others, to be sure) in which a photographer
>can distinguish an object of interest; it seems to me that in black and
>white it more regularly happens that the elements of an image will kind of
>blend together and confuse the picture, and that stereo helps keep that
>from happening.     John Peterson (joepeter@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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These types of thoughts are what led to my questions on camouflage last
week.  How are different objects in a photograph differentiated from each
other?  If not by color, then by contrast between black - white - or grays.
Also by depth cues. And shape, etc.  Also by texture, which would make a
fascinating study for stereo photos.
There are many textures that would be beautiful in stereo B & W.
Sand dunes, tree bark, corrugated iron, etc.  Some of these I have seen
in stereo photos; borrow a Keystone 600 picture set to see the potential
of B & W of earlier days. More recent photos, of high contrast and 
proper 'zones', showing detail in shadowed areas, are even better. 
Without being dogmatic (not much)....B & W stereos of the appropriate
subjects are as awe-inspiring as color stereos.  
Has anyone done stereo studies of shadows....around a column, across
a staircase, over a shape?   Difficult to meter for exposure, for sure.
When I get my Realist, I'll show everyone. 
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