Any of you folks tried taking 3D photos? In preparation for my vacation next month, I have been fiddling with the idea of taking 3D photos (basically taking two photos an inch or so apart and using free progams available online to superimpose them onto each other. Granted, you’ll need those red and blue glasses but my initial results have been very favorable.
I got the idea by viewing some of the USGS photos from various US national parks and many of which are in 3D.
Here’s a sample picture I took of my backyard yesterday evening. With this picture in particular, in takes my eyes about 10-15 seconds with the glasses to adjust but once they do, it looks great.
Your pic looked better in the smaller version. When I clicked the + sign it went out of focus badly for me (just my monitor, I guess). Are those oranges in your backyard? I see you keep your children appropriately fenced in.
It takes my eyes a moment for everything to draw into focus and the background to recede into the back. After it does, it looks like I am looking out a window as things pop back. I find it quicker to focus if the picture is in black and white such as HERE and HERE.
I did a closeup of some spring Crocus one time, taking two pics from spots approximately as far apart as my eyes are. Once they were printed (pre digital days!) I mounted them on a piece of cardboard with the appropriate separation and looked at them using that cross eyed method used for viewing stereograms. It worked!
You don’t even need the glasses. If you look at some of the old APOD stereo photos, some of us reposted the stereographs so the glasses weren’t necessary.
