P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2433

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

Dr. T. wrote on Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 14:05:48 -0500 (EST):
>
>I think Boris has gone one step further than this.  He will not record them
>in the first place.  I say that I find pleasure in taking good pictures
>that have little depth.  Boris seems to be saying that he will only shoot

George, I also find great pleasure in taking good pictures with little
depth - no argument there!  I just do not shoot such subjects in stereo.
If I did, and then presented them as great 3-D pictures, many in my
audience would sense that stereo photography doesn't produce much depth,
and isn't worth the trouble.   That's why I am fighting "flat" stereo.

Do you look forward to the substantial technical challenges of presenting
stereo to your audience that much?  Far better to use a panoramic MF+
camera for that vista of the grand canyon... then make a large print.  It's
easier to publish, easier to view in a much broader range of media.  That
way many more people will enjoy it, and no one will think stereo
photography is a gimmick.

(And I know that I can get "depth" by putting a tumbleweed in the
foreground. But, justifying stereo photography, by having to add irrelevant
objects for depth, is going too far in my view.)




>Boris seems to be saying that he will only shoot
>close ups because pictures where the scene starts at 10 feet have little
>depth and don't generate "wows".
>
>I sense a conflict in Boris' desire to record ortho stereo pictures that
>please himself and his desire to record stereo pictures that are appealing
>to the novices.

I'm afraid that I just don't understand the logic in this sequential pair
of statements.

Thank you,

Boris



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