Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1401

[P3D George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> To: "photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Olympic Lenticular Animation
> -- [ From: Chuck Hassen * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> 
> BTW, does anyone out there have any experience with intentionally soft-
> focusing 3-d images?  I am considering shooting a sculpture and want to
> soften the textures to create a more romantic impressionistic feeling...
> without losing the 3-d-ness.
> 
> Chuck
> 
There are three ways of getting a soft-focus effect
	focus badly
	use a clear filter and smear Vaseline on it lightly
	there are clear filters that are etched slightly
The first I've done by accident often enough and it does not look romantic.
The other two have worked well for me on 2-d slides. The greasy stuff is
more flexible but a bit messy.

No doubt you know all this already. On preserving the three-dimensionality,
the problem that came to mind is that the two filters would of necessity
be different, and thus fuzz up the two views differently.

My only direct experience has been with dirty eye-glasses. Consider that
in the old days they used to think that having one view out of focus
enhanced the 3-d effect (or so I've read someplace), one would think
that a bit of random fuzz wouldn't matter. Anyway, dirty glasses do
not destroy 3-d-ness for me.

Now that I think of it, you can experiment without wasting film, go
smear Vaseline on your sunglasses!

Good luck, and let us know how it works out.

George


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