Re: Photographing anaglyph

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> I want to take an anaglyph print that'll look good using cheap red/blue >> viewers. I tried several things with not a single great result yet: >>
>You are rather vague about exactly what you are doing. I gather you are somehow >superimposing two shots, one made through a red and one through a blue filter. 

Same here... Are you trying to double expose the scene in one picture though the two filters or are you taking one print at a time with the different filters? If you are doing the later, how are you trying to view them? The two images must be superimposed. 

In most commercial cases (except the Q-DOS system) anaglyph is used as a presentation method, i.e., you have the stereo pair on hand and you are presenting it in an anaglyph form (in the computer, a book, postcard, etc.)

Anaglyph has many advantages when used as an educational tool in books or also in postcards, etc., mainly because you don't need to train the viewer to view the image. Just use the glasses provided. But for one's own photography I don't see why anyone would choose this method over prints or slides.

George Themelis


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