Re: [photo-3d] Wheel In The Sky

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:28 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] Wheel In The Sky


> ...The books ain't gonna teach it
> to ya like experience will!...

So very true!

> ...Thankfully I shot tons of film and learned from some past mistakes. I
> lifted the bike into the air lying the front tire on my porch roof, and
> handlebars in the gutter! Beautiful! Now I've got just the rear wheel
> against a clear blue sky. Problem solved, and the compositional
> opportunities were endless. Thus " Wheel in the Sky" was an award
> winner.......and look Mom, No math! :-)
>                                               Mark Dottle

Great technique.  So many of the stereo closeups I see at exhibitions have
eye-straining distant backgrounds.  Sort of like they just walked up to the
subject and shot the picture without giving it any thought.   Often you can
improve a picture dramatically by simply choosing a different point of view;
look at the subject from a different angle.  If you can't find an angle
where the background is close enough, there is nothing wrong with tilting
the camera up or down.  The low point of view with the blue sky background
that you used works great.  The reverse, with the camera high up and aimed
down, so that the background is the ground below, also can do wonders.  And
of course, creating a new background, as with the example of the paper
placed behind the subject in another recent thread.

JR




 

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