P3D Re: Cardboarding

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998
>From: boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta) Comments:
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>Anyway, since then I've done a little experimenting, and find that shooting
>with as much as 80mm lenses doesn't look too bad (- that's without expanded
>stereobase), and does bring the subject a bit closer.  I also find that the
>background needs to be kept completely clear of any detail, because
>disparities of more distant objects are magnified by the longer f.l.
>

It's precisely because of this *challenge* and the work-around you are
discovering, that you find yourself faced with another opportunity. Since
you already have to shoot with a clean background, you can replace that
background area with whatever you'd like, and in stereo.

If you're doing portraits, put the kids in a space-ship or sitting in the
mouth of a dragon. For the adult level of interest, the *here we are in the
Wild West* kind of portrait can be created with a virtual 3D set. To do this
photographically you might have to create a mask along the way, but
digitally, it's easy with chroma key processes. There's gotta be some
commercial value to a bit of fancy fantasy in 3D!

Have fun!

Larry Berlin

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