A modest stereo image
 

I thought Elspode would be interested, if nobody else. Here is a sample anaglyph made with the Pokescope stereo image processing software.

http://www.barks.org/stereo/ptm display1-ana.jpg


I personally prefer side-by-side pairs; Due to the fact that the vision in my right eye is really bad compared to my left eye (which is bad enough to start), I perceive a strong red distortion when I view anaglyphs.

http://www.barks.org/stereo/ptm display1.jpg

The scene is a display case of antique toys at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.

*Really* excellent job, SD...wonderful selection of subject matter, many depths, extremely interesting items all. I envy your compositional skills.

How did you photograph the pair?

Re: A modest stereo image
 

It would appear that they don't want you to touch these ... that seems wrong somehow.

Yes indeedy wolf..... they torment little children by luring them off the street with their name, promising that they will allow, nay, ENCOURAGE you to touch things... and then everything is in locked glass display cases!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :rattat: :rattat:

No, seriously.... it's a fun place to take little kids. In spite of the name, they do have a handful of display cases with antiques. For example, aside from the one in this picture, there's a case with some old metal lunch boxes (tho they have a nice Star Trek one and a Battle of the Planets one, they don't have the Space Shuttle one I used to have), and one with some old plastic cereal box giveaways. These were loaned by a man who lives in the Philadelphia area and who actually designed a lot of them for different cereal companies. (I actually remember having the Flintstone's combination calendar/pencil holder.) Anyway, judging from my trips to the museum, the display cases are ignored by 99.44% of the kids.

Elspode, I used my Olympus D-460 digital camera to take the shot, first the left exposure, then the right, and I then used the Pokescope software to align, crop, and combine them. The D-460 has a cross-hair in the viewfinder that is used for spot metering and focus lock, and it comes in handy to help guide the vertical alignment of the shots. You may notice there is a slight difference in exposure between the two halves. I'm working on a way around that--the perils of a point & shoot camera with no manual exposure settings.

Oh, and the pics are way to big. I'm gonna downsize em when I get a chance.

Off of a tripod or freestanding? If freestanding, I congratulate you all the more on a job well done.

As opposed to 99 44/100 % pure's kids.

This sounds like a good place for a family field trip from Baltimore. What ages would enjoy it, and how close is it to other interesting, kid friendly Philadelphia attractions?

Oh, yeah, nice photo, SteveD.

Elspode, it was free-standing... but don't be too impressed... with the software I used, you can click the same point on each side, and the software will adjust the cropping so that any alignment errors are negated.

99, it is a fun place for kids. I think they say ages 2-7 or 2-8. Their web site (which I don't think much of as a web site), is at http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org. My kids could (and have) spent the entire visit in the kid-sized grocery store. The Franklin Institute science museum is right across the street, and the Academy of Natural Sciences is close by too. If you'd rather mix in the zoo or the Liberty Bell/Independence Hall area, those two are not so close, but I think SEPTA has a bus that runs around through all of the attractions that you can buy a day pass for.

I was out taking pictures, and I remembered these posts of 3D images, and I decided to try it myself, see what I could do. Unfortunately, I don't have any red/blue glasses, nor a way to create them, so maybe someone who does could let me know how this came out :-)

Luckily I am totally lazy, and never put the 3-D glasses back in the videocassette box for the Atomic Bomb Movie in 3-D!

That is an awesome image. the stones in the foreground are very nicely detailed ... but actually one of the coolest parts of the image is the trees in the background. They REALLY show up nicely in the 3-D view.

Excellent work.

Thanks. I took 5 sets to try and use, that one seemed the best to start out with. Rather than post them all directly here and waste cellar's bandwidth, I'll provide a link if anyone is interested in seeing the other 4:

http://linknoid.net/images/3D/

Let me know what you think.

"River" and "Hole" are my favorites. The contrast between the mossy edge of the Hole and the detritus of leaves within is very clear.

"Embankment" is awesome ... esp. that little detail area near the center where the roots are kinding dripping off the edge!

I think the separation is off a little bit too much on "Trees".

Damn...and me here at work with no 3D glasses. I'm very anxious to see these, LN...looks very promising!