P3D Motion parallax & clouds

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

>"it was one of those prints that had enough depth that you believe you 
>could just walk right into the scene." 

Obviously, this person has never seen a stereo picture....

I've noticed Brian is reading my postings very carefully and posting
testimonies to the contrary... Which is fine with me and really very easy
to do...

The subject is the powerful depth information that motion parallax has.  

Another example is this area is hyperstereos of clouds.  I like them.  My
wife says she does not care for them.  I think what is happening here is
that she has a very good depth perception of how the clouds look in 3d
space, just by watching them out of the airplane window.  So the 3d picture
fails to impress them.

Last time I projected a cloud hyperstereo in the club and told my theory
about motion parallax resulting in some people's indifference for these
pictures, a club member said:  "If you think that the stereo effect in this
picture is not very strong, just close one eye".  I did close my eye and
the nice hyperstereo of the clouds became a boring and disappointing 2d
picture of clouds.

Which brings me to the disappointment that 2d photographers feel sometimes
when their 2d pictures do not exactly capture the spirit of the scene.  I
believe clouds is one example.  As they see the clouds roll past the plane,
they like it, try to capture it in 2d and then they are disappointed that
what they see in the picture is nothing compared to the feeling (sense of
depth mainly) they had while looking through the window.

George Themelis


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