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P3D Through the Window in Detroit



It was a fun evening!  We started with the stereo card competition.
I was one of the 3 judges.  Impressions will follow later.

The "through the window" slide competition featured diverse images 
and a few surprises.  In terms of subjects we saw quite a few 
flowers, some tabletops, animals, guns pointed towards the audience,
etc.  The most interesting part was the mounting.  We saw quite a few 
round masks (Harry Richards supplies those and he is in photo-3d now!)

Another good night for me with a 2nd, 3rd and HM.  Dennis Hanser
did OK with a 3rd and HM, still comfortably in first place with
two competitions to go ("Winter", "Open")

My three images were:  

HM: Flower (red dahlia outdoors - SLR with macro lens), cropped 
only slightly in a square mask.  

3d place:  A troll that I found in the Copenhagen airport during our
trip to Greece this summer (photographed with x-rayed film, of course 
:-)).  He was about 5 feet tall sitting outside a gift shop.  I snapped 
him with my Realist and on-camera flash.  A little bit of creative 
mounting brought his huge nose, clearly out of the window.  We saw 
flowers and guns come out of the window.  To see a nose come out the 
window was a refreshing change and the audience liked it.

2nd place:  Last Sunday, following the usual routine of visiting the
dollar store after church, my son (6) bought these eyeglass frames 
with eyeballs popping out and suspended with springs from the frame.
I had a few shots left in my Realist and asked him to take a silly
face with the eyeball glasses on.  He opened his mouth and stack
his tongue out (green from the last candy he ate).  I took one
picture from 4 feet away (minimum focusing distance in the Realist) 
with a flash on camera.  4 feet Realist portrait?!  Well, yes!
I cropped the face with a small square mask and called it "You
are silly!"  A green tongue and eyeball glasses popping out of
the window.  You cannot get sillier than that!  

In retrospect, I am happy I could not find any round masks (my
first reaction was to look for round masks but could not find any
of the appropriate size) because there were just too many round
masks in the competition.  The square masks worked very well.  I
have plenty of these paper masks, in different sizes.  The troll 
was masked horizontally only, by overlaying two aluminum masks.  
I had to work quite a bit through trial and error to find the
appropriate combination of mounting and masking, to give the 
best effect.

I noticed that many people cannot mount properly.  Many closeups 
had an inappropriate stereo window.  (This is happens when you 
stick a Realist close up in a heat seal mount).  One slide had a 
good subject for going through the window but it was mounted so 
that it was not going through the window!  Stereo clubs should 
do more on educating their members on correct mounting.  Mounting 
can "make" or "break" a stereo slide!

Reporting from Cleveland OH for Detroit MI -- George Themelis


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