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Welcome to my gallery of stereo photos. These photos date from around 1995 to 2005, taken where I was living or visiting, hence the predominance of San Francisco, Berlin, and Beirut. All stereo pairs are parallel (left image for left eye, right image for right eye).
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300 PIXEL GALERIES Landscapes Cityscapes Nature Deep Views Macros Sculpture Shrines and memorials Uncategorized |
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If you can fuse the boardwalk stereo pair without eyestrain, view the medium-sized gallery with 300 pixel separation. Otherwise, try the pruefungstafel stereo pair to see if the smaller-sized gallery with 200 pixel separation will work.
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200 PIXEL GALERIES Landscapes Cityscapes Nature Deep Views Macros Sculpture Shrines and memorials Uncategorized |
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I typically use one 35 mm single lens reflex camera with a 105 mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor, or a 50 mm f/1.4 Nikkor, using Kodak Elite 100 or Fuji Velvia slide film, and natural light. Recently, I have used two cameras mounted side by side, allowing near simultaneity, but with limited separation. I much prefer viewing original slides in a twin 4X loupe viewer, but digital processing allows for corrections to reduce eye strain.
Any subject for which two views are available, a few degrees apart, can produce a good stereo pair. This includes, less obviously, subjects that are very far away, such as mountains, and even celestial bodies, such as comets, the Sun, Jupiter, and the Moon. If you fly often, I recommend a window seat in front of the wing on the shady side, with a few seconds between exposures. A few photos are credited to others: the aerial view of Mt. St. Helens and San Francisco are by Adriana Huyer, and the solar images are from SDAC at NASA.
Try searching “stereo photography” or check out a very good site of photos and technical advice:
Stereoposis Despite the use of depth perception based on stereopsis in daily activities, especially hand-eye coordination (threading a needle, grabbing a handle), it was only recognized scientifically in the early 19th century (Charles Wheatstone, 1938). Public interest has bloomed in various eras, and very soon after the invention of photography, stereo cameras and viewers became popular. It has been the primary method of constructing topological maps, and there is current interest in computerized methods to extract distance information from images. Militarily, it was exploited for artillery ranging (especially naval), and has advantages over split-image and superimposition methods. It has also been the subject of considerable scientific inquiry, as an example of complex post-retinal visual processing. Educationally, stereo images form a very simple and powerful method to represent three-dimensional structures in two dimensional formats, whether paper or computer monitor, and are commonly found in organic chemistry and biochemistry textbooks and structural biology journals. An estimated 5-10% of public are unable to perceive depth by stereopsis, despite having two functional eyes, often the result of early childhood problems preventing fusion of binocular images during a critical developmental period. The average separation between the eyes in adult humans is approximately 65 mm, and since discrepancy between two viewpoints differing in as little as 25 seconds of arc is a typical threshold, humans can perceive objects as far away as 500 m as being closer than infinity. As an aspect of photography, stereo photography is sometimes regarded as a gimmick, but many enthusiasts will argue that it can be an excellent method to explore another dimension to composition. |
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