Re: Recording 3D for the Future - Boston Marathon

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Motley wrote:

>Wonder if Jon Golden and/or others of the Boston Photo-3D group 
>got any good 3D pictures of the Marathon which they might tell us
>about?  One more comment, that road with the thousands of runners
>looked almost as congested as the road leading to Logan Airport
>on a normal afternoon. :-)))

Thanks Jim for this "food for thought"...

It is always a great challenge to take a 3-d picture of a large group of
people.  At a "street level" you will only record the people close to you. 
At an elevated level you will need more than a Realist to get more depth. 
A single SLR from a helicopter will not work well since your main subject
is moving... I don't want to discourage 3-d photographers planning to
record events like this one but you need to study the situation carefully
if you want to get something more than ordinary "Realist" pictures.

Bob Bloomberg has an award-winning picture of a large group of twins taken
in the annual twin gathering close to our area, in Twinsburg OH.  He
recorded the picture from an elevated location and used twin SLRs. 
Shooting twins with a twin rig... what a concept!

A pair of long lenses will give the "compression effect" that Jim has in
mind... Most people are ready to grab their wide-angle lenses for this
situation... Try longer lenses and you might like what you get...

George Themelis


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