P3D Stereo intimacy

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter wrote:

>It is pretty amazing that if a
>stereo portrait causes you to seem too close to the subject, it gives you
>the same sort of feelings as 'having your space violated' by someone who
>stands right next to you to talk.

That's exactly the realism of ortho stereo photography!

I have noticed that I remember people's faces much better if I study
a stereo picture of them rather than meeting them in person.  I have
cases where I spent hours with a person and a few days later I could
not remember their face.  If I take a stereo picture and look at it
later then the metal image of this person comes from the picture and
not from the real meeting.  For example, I have spent several hours
talking to Ron Labbe in different NSA conventions.  The image of him
that comes to my mind is from a few stereo slides that we took when
we visited Paul Wing at the hospital a few years back.

The theory is that we are more relaxed when we view the picture
and it gets imprinted better in our memory.

When I joined the Detroit stereo club, I met the gentleman which I was
sure I had seen in the past.  But I could not remember where.  Later he
mentioned that he attended the NSA convention in Cincinnati in 1988.
This was my first NSA convention. Immediately I remembered that he was
sitting next to my wife in a stereo slide that I have from this
convention.  That was 6 years after the convention.  If it wasn't for
the picture I would have never remembered him...  (This gentleman is
Bill Battishill and he is interviewed in the last issue of The Stereo 
Window, the newsletter of the Detroit club - John Vala is the editor.)

George Themelis


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