P3D starosta phantograms

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

Friends:

The phantograms were a big, big, hit at my gallery opening.  I heard, as
the evening progressed, that people were being pulled in off the street
with exclamations like, "You've got to go in there and check out this
print!"  The response was absolutely and overwhelmingly positive.  My
exhibit was packed for a good three hours, then I had to leave and get some
dinner (It was after 9PM...).  I don't know how much longer the gallery
stayed open.

Shortly after I got the idea to make the life size phantogram, I thought it
sensible to make a smaller one to try and sell.  After all, I was making
the big one to attract attention - to the show, and to the medium and this
unusual format.  So I shot Brandi not just for a life-size phantogram, but
also for a 1/4 scale phantogram that would be sold.

The 1/4 scale print needed a totally different camera setup - for example,
I shot it with an interaxial separation of about 9.5 inches.  And the thing
to remember is that you can only shoot for a given size phantogram.  That
is, they cannot be enlarged or reduced significantly without introducing
odd distortions into the perceived 3-d image.

So anyway, I made up four 1/4 scale phantogram prints (about 13x23 inches),
and they've already sold out, and I already have orders for more from the
gallery, and I have received a couple of emails from members of P3D
requesting prints...

Since I will apparently be making up more of them, time to post to sell-3d,
to give everyone here a chance to get their own phantogram of Brandi.  My
sell message will give more details.  Email me separately if you don't get
sell-3d, but are interested in this image.

I'm going to write more about my gallery experience, I am learning so much!
I can tell you, it is so difficult to get people to understand the stereo!
(People would walk up to my slide viewer banks, and seeing that the
viewers were so darned close together, they would squint, or put one hand
in front of one eye, so that the other could get a clear and undistracting
view of a slide!  This despite the fact that I had posted instructions on
how to enjoy the exhibit, etc.   But people don't come into an exhibit to
read.  They come in to see prints on the wall!  I'm lucky if they even
bother to look through one viewer with one eye!  It is a very difficult and
intractable problem...  With a big crowd there, and word getting around on
how to look at things, people have no problem...  but if a single visitor
comes up, as they did earlier in the day, you've got to literally lead them
by the hand and show them what to look at and how...)

But now it is late and I am tired.

Boris



Boris Starosta            boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx
                          http://www.starosta.com
usa 804 979 3930          http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase



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