I did stop to take a pair of pictures of foot steps in the snow while I was out checking on the chickens (they are fine, cold, but fine). These are the stereoscopic photos, in parallel view and cross view (which I still can’t see).
These don’t have the depth I’ve achieved in other photos. The vast stretch of white probably doesn’t help. The photo really gets interesting in the top third. Hm.
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.)
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.
I was obsessed with Magic Eye pictures in the 80s, and recently found out that the same eye unfocusing technique can be used with photos taken at slightly different viewpoints then framed together. So I have started experimenting with my own photos.
There are two different basic ways that the photos can be presented. Parallel view, where the left eye looks at the left picture and the right eye looks at the right picture, and Cross view, where the left eye looks at the right picture and the right eye looks at the left picture. I can’t do the cross eye viewing, so can’t double check my work, so I’m only presenting parallel view today.
For me, I unfocus my eyes until I see three photos instead of two, and I can then focus on the middle photo, which looks 3D.
I’m also learning about framing and composition. Experiments will continue.
Critters and Craft 