Arboretum 3D photography

I recently visited the conservatory and gardens at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, OK. So many opportunities for stereographic photos! I took many using my eldest’s phone, a OnePlus. I stood with my feet shoulder’s width apart, the camera at eye level, then shifted my weight left, took a picture, shifted by weight right, and took the second picture.

Photo description: Parallel view, Walkway in the conservatory
Photo description: Cross view, Walkway in the conservatory

I decided to prepare the photos on my computer, rather than fiddle with placing on my phone. I found out that I can’t view the parallel photo if the combined pictures are larger than my phone screen! Hm. I can’t view the cross view 3D effect at all, but in the stereographic posts I’ve seen, there are people that have the opposite problem. The difference between setting up photos for parallel or cross view is just switching photo positions. It is the same two photos, just swapped. Easy enough to do when on the computer.

I also found that while the conservatory walkway has spectacular depth, trying to get the pictures to merge is dizzying with all those lines. So here is one that is less straining.

Photo description: Parallel view, Walkway in the gardens
Photo description: Cross view, Walkway in the gardens

Eastern Phoebe

Here is another set of pictures taking from my kitchen with my digital camera. I watched this little Eastern Phoebe beat the katydid against the railing several times, then swallow it whole. Wow.

Photo description: Eastern Phoebe with a green katydid in its beak
Photo description: Eastern Phoebe with a green katydid in its beak, different angle
Photo description: Eastern Phoebe swallowing the katydid, the insect parts can just be seen inside the beak
Photo description: Eastern Phoebe finishing swallowing
Photo description: Deed done. Phoebe fed.

Oh deer!

We have been taking pictures with my Canon digital camera out the back door but I only just downloaded for the last month. Hm. I found the deer pictures my eldest took, when she spotted a doe in the back woods!

Photo description: deer in the backwoods, squirrel tree circus in foreground
Photo description: Zoom in on the deer, watching the house

Do I ever see deer in the yard with my own eyes? No. I see them on camera: either the trail cam or someone else’s picture. Hm.

Remember and honor

Photo description: headstones lined up at the Black Hills National Cemetery

Today we honor those that made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. Our flag is flying, and we remember.

Stereoscopic in the woods

I took a walk in my woods with my phone and tried taking some more stereoscopic photos. These are all parallel view (I still can’t do cross view, and my eyes ache from trying.)

Photo description: a look into the woods between two trees, this one doesn’t have much depth, it is mostly foreground and background
Photo description: path up a hill through the woods, this one came out better, there are objects in the middle distance that help set up the depth and I feel like the framing works
Photo description: path through a thicket, this is my favorite of the three here, there is a branch in the foreground that comes forward, and all the brambles next to the path give a nice sense of depth

Here are my tricks when I’m having trouble merging the two photos to see the 3D image: take off my glasses or put them on, make sure there isn’t a glare on the screen, move the screen closer then farther away. There are some images that I simply cannot get the trick to work, sometimes it is the day or hour, and sometimes I suspect poor composition. My favorite stereoscopic (and stareograms) images are the ones so well done that it just pops together with very little effort.