Photos in 3-d
July 2009 (index)
I happened across some "3-d photos" by Jaime Martinez.
It's surprisingly easy to mimic the 3-d-ness (although unsurprisingly difficult to replicate the style, lighting, skill etc) of the originals.
All you need is to take two photographs of the same scene, with a slightly different view. The camera positions should be a short distance apart but pointed in the same direction.
If you look at the two photos in your favourite photo-viewing software and flip rapidly between them then you should get the 3-d effect. For the image on this page I converted the images to GIF format and then used unFREEz to make an animated GIF which shows them repeatedly in a loop in quick succession.
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One tricky bit is managing to take the two photos in the same direction. It helped to hack together a quick psuedo-tripod along these lines.
Looking at Jaime Martinez's photos he appears to be taking multiple photos from different viewpoints simultaneously (eg the leaves in mid-air), and possibly using more than two images (eg the rock crowd).
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