Action Stereo

I love stereo photography (no kidding!).  Most of my images are taken using the so called "cha cha" method, where you take one photo and then shift the camera a few inches to the right for the second image.  One setup I have uses two Canon "point and shoot" cameras and software developed to override the built-in firmware.  This allows the cameras to be synchronized quite well, as shown by the ax in mid-flight below.

and in anaglyph...

These shots were taken at the Lincoln Village in Rockport Indiana.

I have no idea

Just another bug.  The total length of this one was about 12mm.  I am not sure why, but I thought his head and "shoulders" looks almost robot-like.  I guess I have been watching too many sci-fi movies.

Just another bug

This guy was on the window in my garage, so he agreed to a photo shoot (RIP).

I also decided to put him in stereo, so here is the "side" mug shot:

and the same thing in anaglyph.

Another early spring flower

I keep noticing these small blue flowers which appear to be widespread in the neighborhood.  The flowers are only a few mm in diameter, but under the microscope they look lovely!  As nearly as I can tell they are a type of "Creeping Speedwell".  The images below were taken with my Nikon FS-2 using a new micrometer based system to get better resolution with my focus stacking.  Each of the photos was composed of over 30 individual images merged using Helicon Focus.

The photo above is fairly high resolution (click to enlarge), and the images below are side-by-side parallel 3D, followed by anaglyphs.

Coming at you!

Learning how to get 3D images to "jump" out of the screen is fun.  Here is a shot I took of the railroad tracks behind my house.  As a normal stereo image it is OK, but having the tracks come out of the frame makes it much better!

If you click on the image you can get it full-screen.

Th "mini" weeds of spring (up close)

It isn't March yet, but some of my favorite weeds are already starting to blossom.  I love looking at the very mall flowers of the early ground flowers (weeds?).  This guy (bittercress) seems to grow everywhere and is very prolific.  You can see the flowers and the maturing seed pods on the central stem.  Although they start out very small, they can grow to be 4 - 6 inches wide for the whole plant.

The clay dish is 3 inches in diameter.  The flower stem is shown below in side-by-side stereo

and as an anaglyph.

A very old bug

I did this just to see if I could.  While at the local Rock and Mineral Show last year I foolishly spent $10 on a piece of amber that looked like it had all kinds of bugs inside.  I finally got around to cutting and polishing a piece and, sure enough, there is a 40,000,000 (more or less) year old mosquito (or some such creature!).  This again is a red/green anaglyph.

From the tip of the tail to the end of the head is about 2.5 mm.

It isn't always what it seems....

I have spent a fair amount of time recently working on my equipment, and I decided that a piece of "rough" limestone was an excellent sample to look at.  Since the BPC had a "share" for "what is it" photos I took the following (shown as a 3D anaglyph).  The width in the top photo is about 1/2 inch.

My dear wife took one look and suggested this as a better "what is it"--I have to agree that she has a good eye!

The limestone is on the right, mixed breakfast cereal on the left.

Escaping Spiders!

Watch out for spiders crawling out of their picture frames!  (you need red/green glasses for this one)

A moth in 3D

The cute little guy shown here was happily sitting on a piece of white card stock I use for backgrounds, so I quickly took a series of photos to try to capture him in stereo before he took off.  The images from "above" were taken with my FS-2 bioscope and consisted of two series of stacked images combined with Helicon and generated using Stereo Photo Maker.  The second view from the "front" was taken with my D80 hand-held using an extension tube and my 70-300mm zoom with a flash.  SPM was able to properly align and size the images to come up with a pretty good stereo pair.  The anaglyph images must be viewed with red-green glasses and you have to view the side by side images by "uncrossing" your eyes.

 

Three hours later the moth is still sitting on the card stock!