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3D Dual Image Digital Photography
"Mae'r byd i gyd yn llwyfan"
"All the world's a stage"
Shakespeare, As You Like It
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Explore the magical, and at times mystical, world of 3D Dual Image Digital Photography. Once seen never forgotten, such is the impression experienced on first successfully developing imaging technique. But anyone can produce 3D Dual Image digital photos. A compact digital camera or smart phone will do and the software provided with a Windows computer will adequately do the job of specialised programs. But as of yet this is still very much an undiscovered world with experimentation and experience our guiding lights. So if you are ready for a journey into the unknown then 3D Dual Image Digital Photography is for you!
Magic Wand Naked Eye 3D Imaging Technique
To view 3D Dual Image digital photography requires one to cross one's eyes and so two traditional 2D photos become one cutting-edge 3D photo.
But how is this to be achieved? Easy, by the use of a magic wand held close to the face and focused on. Then moved slowly towards the photo to facilitate the 3D effect, perhaps moved around a bit too, so that you catch the 3D image almost teasing it into existence, and if you start to lose it then tease it back again.
But where do you get a magic wand? Just use a finger or a pencil or anything you can utilise to focus on. To use as an aid to facilitate your imaging.
With a bit of practice you'll soon get the hang of it and as the 3D image appears the effect is literally like the magic dust sprinkling off the Walt Disney's fairy's wand for you enter a new world, the 3D world as you exit the old 2D.
So powerful is this imaging technique that you'll even be able to view YouTube's selection of 3D dual image videos. With practice you'll find it should be possible to dispense with the 'magic wand' and visualise au naturel simply by flexing your eye muscles.
Production of 3D Dual Image Digital Photographs
Production of 3D Dual Image digital photograph involves combing two 2D photos into one 3D photo and, what follows, is a way of doing that using software you'll find on any computer utilising a Microsoft Windows operating system. That is the software is already installed on such a computer since it is provided gratis with the operating system. But, obviously, this isn't the only way.
STEP 1 You've chosen your subject and what you require are two almost identical images. And that is the key: almost identical. For as you take the second photo slightly change the camera's direction of shooting. As with everything to do with 3D Dual Image digital photography you'll learn by experience so do experiment with deliberation. Do you need a tripod? No, you'll get great results hand-held. (Or, if you like you can collect your photos as still frames from a video.)
STEP 2 Download your photos onto your computer. By clicking-on them they'll be viewable in Windows Photo Viewer. Adjust the size of the viewing pane so that two images can be simultaneously displayed on your computer screen. Move them about so that they are positioned side by side and, if necessary, adjust them vertically so that horizontally the pictures are aligned. This positioning tolerates a degree of error presumably reflecting the brain's 'software' allowing for the normal imperfect symmetry, or asymmetry, of individual's faces.
STEP 3 Press Print-Screen (PrtScn) on your keyboard.
STEP 4 Open a program already installed on your computer entitled Paint . If you don't know where it is then you'll find it in the Accessories folder of All Programs which displays after you click-on the Start button.
STEP 5 You're in Paint and you click-on paste resulting in what you produced in STEP 2 being displayed. But it's probably too big to see it all. So at the top of the screen click-on on View and then click-on zoom out so that all is displayed.
STEP 6 Now it's time to crop your screen display reducing it to your original two 2D photos but taking care to trim off the outer vertical edges where the camera's movement has resulted in some differences to what will after cropping appear to be two identical photos. But they are not identical since movement of the camera has produced subtle differences, perhaps not noticeable to the naked eye, required to produce a 3D effect. [Or are we experiencing a 4D effect? For utilising a single camera, or frames from a video, there is a time difference between the two photos so presumably with our temporal and spatial shifting we are creating an interference pattern resulting in our 3D image; so it could be argued we are observing a quantum effect in our everyday 4D, or macro, world; just as we do with a rainbow so would a better descriptive title be Quantum Photography?] So, anyway, click-on on Home then Select followed by Rectangular Selection . You will notice that the cursor has changed and cropping can commence. Usually you'll find that a single rectangular crop will suffice.
STEP 7 On completion of cropping
you can now save what is your new 3D dual image digital photo and then view it using Windows Photo Viewer .
This may sound all rather complicated but with a bit of experience it will all become rather automatic like driving a car and you'll often be able to evaluate your pictures at STEP 2 . If you require a white bar between the two images then utilise Shapes in Paint before saving your 3D photo.
Sample 3D Dual Image Digital Photographs
Tenby Harbour
Carew Castle
Caldey Island
Tenby Harbour
Tenby Sunrise
Try this at home!
Try this at home!
Daffodil
Honeysuckle
Apple Blossom
Photos by Maximilian Teodorescu, Romania
Photos by Christopher Go, Phillippnes
Photos by Christopher Go, Phillippnes
Photos by NASA Hubble space telescope 2020
Comet Iwamoto (C/2018 Y1) Photos by Michael Jäger, Austria
Asteroid Ryugu by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2
Ultima Thule by NASA spacecraft New Horizons
(This is the most distant 3D image from Earth)
Henry VII @ Pembroke Castle
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