P3D Re: Cardboarding

[Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

CARDBOARDING: Under what specific conditions is everyone seeing this
effect? If you take a photograph using a stereo camera, everything in the
scene will have depth. Granted, not much in the mountains in the
background, but even there, there is stereo separation - however slight. So
what some are describing as cardboarding is unclear (to me anyway).

In some images such as many VM reels, the effect described as
"Cardboarding" happens because some of the props in the image as well as
the actors in some cases, actually have no depth. In effect, the
photographer is inserting a 2D object, which past experience and common
sense tells us must have depth, into a 3D scene. If I take a 2D photograph
of Dr. T, and he is holding out in front of him his large collection of 4.5
Custom Realists with Seton Rochwite Polarizers and Redufocus Steinheils,
and I make a life size, free standing cardboard cutout of the good doctor,
and I place this in a scene with lots of foreground objects and mountains
in the background, the image when viewed as a Flat slide might not look so
bad. However, viewing it is Stereo will tell the tale and will give you the
effect we are calling Cardboarding.

Does this seem like a fair description and reasonable to any of you?

RM



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