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HA!!! I work at a plaza in the lower left corner of this shot (so I am technically in this picture)!!!!! I love it!!!!! It's a great shot!!!!

Thank you Kerim!

lovely series

Thank you for your very kind words!

Thanks Ted,
that's all is very, very interesting! They are a lucky one and are allowed to fly a lot. I envy you very!
You are a very good 3D photographer! Thank you very much for the detailed explanations.
I wish you continued good luck with 3D photography! They are very nice!

No. All my aerial photos have been out the window on passenger airline flights. I work for American Airlines and fly free, so I fly several times a year, although usually it's to the same places (either Boston or New York, to visit family) and almost always connecting in Dallas, so my aerial photos are starting to feel a little repetitive. Many times I can't get a good window seat because I fly standby, I have to take whatever is available. You need to have a window seat that is away from the wing. Ideally you want to be on the opposite side of the plane from the side the sun is on, so you can avoid the glare and reflections on the window. Apart from that, it's really not too difficult, although you have to get a feel for it, and will make some mistakes in the beginning. The easiest mistake to make is waiting too long between shots, and thereby ending up with too much deviation. You have to snap the two photos a split second apart, as fast as you can usually, although at higher cruising altitudes more time is acceptable, like perhaps a second or two. Of course, they have to be aligned with StereoPhoto Maker later. And I generally end up cropping them somewhat, and I play around with the brightness, contrast, saturation etc in Photoshop, because they tend to look very over-exposed.

Oh yes, it's really nice! The series is nice! I am fascinated by aerial photos! ... Do you have a pilot's license? Thanks!

I think this one's kind of neat. It's obviously one big facility of some company. They have some interesting landscaping, and what looks like a little round theater / stage of some sort on the lake, with rows of seats. I can't make out the company logo on the roof though.

Thank you very much Maecky!

A wonderful great series! Thank you very much!

You're a "mean" guy...!!! (Just joking...interesting!)

Haha! .. The things we do in the interest of viewing meaningless 3D images designed to confuse and mess with us!

Interesting observation: I was viewing this image on a passive 3D display, with circular polarizing glasses. Putting the anaglyph glasses in front breaks the polarization, so I had to put the anaglyph glasses on first, and the polarizing glasses in front of those.

Thanks Joshua! You're exactly right. But it's also very helpful if you can plan to not be on the side of the plane with the sun, or else your pictures will have a lot of glare and reflections on the airplane window.

Nice! I try to pick a seat up front to avoid wing obstructions, and bring wipes.

Wonderful!

Haha. Thanks for the vote of confidence my friend. If I had the time, I surely would help you, but I have very little time.

OK, TED.....TIME FOR YOU TO DO SOME MORE CONVERSIONS (OF MY 2D SHOTS MAYBE? ) SEE, THE GUYS AND GALS ON PHOTO3D DON'T LIKE TO LOOK AT 2D PHOTOS. I DON'T WANT TO DISGUST THEM WITH 2D PHOTOS. SO, AS A "PUBLIC SERVICE" TO THEM...NOT FOR ME BUT FOR THEM....YOU COULD CONVERT ONE OF MINE ONCE IN AWHILE??? (OK...the above is mostly BS....please forgive!!! :o)

Thank you for the compliment on this photo. As far as "the technical .. how we got there" being "less important" .. I don't agree. Before you can produce a good image (the "end product" as you call it) you have to understand your equipment, how it works, and understand various other things about photography in general, and in this case, stereo photography specifically. The out-of-context comment here seems to be, rather than specific to this photo, a response to the thread we've had going in the yahoo group of late, and our conversation about the 3D conversions you've posted and called "3D conversions by John Boland and company".

Of course, you may suggest it. But I don't agree. Of course I try to take good photos, and if I succeed and people think it's good, then it's 'artistic' in that respect. But I don't agree that a photo needs to "say" something, i.e. have deep, hidden, religious or philosophical messages. I know you've been arguing this point extensively (despite almost universal disagreement from the other members) on the yahoo groups, so it seems a bit out of context that you posted it here. Or was your comment truly directed at this photo in particular? From the timing (minutes after I left a comment on one of your Phereo images) perhaps this is a response to that (I asked "How did you do this conversion?" because it was my understanding that you didn't know how to do 2D-3D conversion, yet, you described the image as a "3D conversion by John Boland and company", indicating that you had done the conversion.