Wiggle Images

Another method for viewing 3D images is called the Wiggle Stereoscopy.

Using Photoshop I layered up the left and right images I had taken with the Fujifilm W3.

Once in photoshop I used the animation panel so that it flicks between the left and right images. This is then exported as a GIF

 

However, 3D wiggle images can make you feel dizzy and sick after a while.  

I learnt by doing these images that the simpler the subject is, the better and easier it is for the wiggling.

Poland

From my time in Poland I learnt that by using stereoscopic images I could create a contrast between the image and the technique for viewing the images.

Although this was a serious subject I felt that by using what was intended to be a form of entertainment or a child's toy, I could create a contrast between the devices used and the images that were seen. Therefore this would make the viewer think about what was they were viewing.


These images help me to think about what it was I was going to photograph whist in New York. Unlike these images I didn't want them to be to serious. I wanted to go back to how the Victorians used it as a form of entertainment to create a relationship between imagination and technology.

Influence's

One of the areas that interested me most with stereoscopy was the Victorian era.

Victorians paid to see the world differently and to enjoy the spectator ship the experience between real and optical. The stereoscope was mainly used for pleasure and was seen as a parlour room travelling experience. 

What interested me the most was the relationship between the optical devices and the visual imagination.

 

Victorian Stereoscope

With this in mind my intention was to show my images of the places I have visited using different perspective's.

I took a series of images from Formby.  My aim was to experiment with the different places, light and viewpoints.

This image of a Christmas tree works quite well because the viewpoint I took it from allows the end of the tree to appear as if its poking out at you.

I like these images and feel they work well in 3D. My aim now is to use what Images I will take in New York using different perspective's and creating optical experience that will stir the visual imagination.  

Edited Images

 I have edited these images in Lightroom.

Using different presets or minor tweaks was quite difficult because it treats both images as one.

This image is taken from the top of the Empire State Building.  I changed it to black and white, added more contrast and used a yellow saturation preset, so that the taxis on the left still had a hint of colour to draw the eye to.

For this image I just adjusted the exposure and added a vignette. My aim was to draw the viewer by using a vignette, however I'm not sure it really works with this image.

With this image a used a preset that desaturated the colour but made the yellow, red and blue more contrasty.  This also added a vignette which I feel works better than the previous image.

This image I used an old style preset.  I like this style, so using stereo photo maker I added a classic stereo card boarder

Techniques

In order to view in 3D our eyes have to be presented with two slightly different images.  For example with the stereo views and how each image corresponds to the view of each eye.







To view these images you would use a stereoscope.








Physicist David Brewster invented a binocular type stereoscope. This involved mounting the stereo images onto card then placing them into the stereo viewer, the binocular combined the two and created the illusion of a depth. This was an uncomplicated device for viewing daguerreotypes and it was this that was presented at the Great Exhibition held in Crystal Palace in 1851. 

 Brewster stereoscope was a great success with the public and Queen Victoria.

 Stereo views have been likened to 19th century equivalent of TV


Many stereo cards were made and became collectible items. Many Victorian homes had a stereoscope and this became a form of entertainment.


The method today for viewing stereo images

 





Another method I considered was using  Anaglyphs.

The anaglyphic technique is the same principle as stereoscopes with the taken images being taken from the view of each eye. The difference between the two however is an anaglyph uses two colours to be able to see in 3D.  The left image red and the right image and images have to be viewed with glasses that have a different colour filter on each eye.

However I previously used the anaglyphic technique on my other project and found the colour quality wasn't as good as the stereoscopes. So based on this I will use stereoscope technique for my FIP

One of my images from New York using the anaglyphic technique. I feel this technique does not give me the colour quality i am after however, for viewing in portrait format this works better than the stereoviews. This is beacuse of the way we look through the stereoscope, so will consider this when taking my photographs.