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NICE ONE...THE IMAGE, THAT IS! I TRY TO FOCUS ON THE IMAGE.....THE "ART" .....WHICH IS THE IMPORTANT PRODUCT....THE TECHNICAL.....OR HOW WE GOT THERE......... IS LESS IMPORTANT TO ME....TO YOU ALSO?...SO I SUGGEST THAT YOU DON'T WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT TECHNICALITIES.....THE "END PRODUCT"....THE PHOTO THAT YOU SEE....IS THE IMPORTANT PRODUCT..... :o)

GOOD PHOTO! HEY, TED, MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR FOCUS FROM THE TECHNICAL...TO THE ARTISTIC.......FOCUS ON THE IMAGE....AND WHAT THE IMAGE "SAYS"...WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR US ALL.

Oh, and for them to look good also, a lot of adjustments in Photoshop were necessary. They were very washed out and bright, so I had to darken them, add contrast, boost the color saturation, sharpen them etc.

Thanks Dan. So much of it is luck. You need a window seat of course, and one that is far enough away from the wing. Plus the window needs to have very few scratches and damage (which is unusual by itself). Then, the side of the plane you're on, the time of day, the lights inside the plane and the direction of the sun almost always cause horrible glare and reflections on the window. Beyond all that, you just snap away and hope for the best. You never know if you got any usable stereo pairs until you get home, match them up, and align them. On this particular trip I got lucky enough to have nearly ideal conditions on 2 or 3 different flights, so I came home with about 200 fairly decent aerial hypers. But I've flown a number of times since then, and never had the same luck again. Lucky if I get one good shot.

Wow! Well done.

Thanks Tom and John. John, the idea was to make it as confusing as possible. For this one, you start by putting on anaglyph glasses, then cross your eyes too, and of course also, to properly view a phantogram you need to view it from a 45 degree angle. ;-)

I like the angel wings...the anaglyph....??? Thanks for an interesting photo!

Well...it works! Cool idea.

Thanks for the compliment. Glad you like it. Sorry but I don't know anyone who you can hire to do conversions, except Yang Ann at William3D. I think he told me he charges about $250.00 per image. It's very labor intensive and usually very time consuming, so it's not something a person is likely to want to do without adequate compensation, unless it is a project of personal interest to them. I would recommend you buy Michael Beech's book "Mastering 2D to 3D Conversion" and start learning to do conversions yourself.

Thanks for the compliment. Glad you like it. But there already is a title. Look below the image, and you'll see a description section. You'll see my picture, my name, when the image was posted, and then below that it says "Earth and Moon - 2D-3D Conversion" etc. Sorry but I don't know anyone who you can hire to do conversions, except Yang Ann at Williams3D. I think he told me he charges about $250.00 per image. I would recommend you buy Michael Beech's book "Mastering 2D to 3D Conversion" and start learning to do conversions yourself.

I THINK THIS IS GREAT!!! i'M JEALOUS!!! AT FIRST IT LOOKED LIKE A "COIN" BUT NOW I SEE THAT IT IS A MOON OR ASTEROID... MAYBE A TITLE WOULD HELP..SUCH AS "ASTEROID IN SPACE"...SOMETHING LIKE THAT??? KNOW ANYONE WHO WILL DO ONE FOR ME...FOR A FEE???

wow....I AM SOOOO JEALOUS.....THIS ONE IS SOOOO.....GOOD! I WISH I COULD DO THESE 2D TO 3D CONVERSIONS...I'D LIKE TO FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN DO SOME FOR ME....KNOW ANYONE?

Thanks George!

That's excellent!

Thanks Shawm. I'm happy that you appreciate them! There were many stages to this project, and most of the real work was done in Photoshop, trying my best to restore the colors. But as far as the scans themselves, I scanned them with an "Epson Perfection V600 Photo" scanner. There's a wide range of opinion on what DPI to scan View-Master reels at, but it depends on what your intentions are for the final images (whether you intend them to be viewed only in small scale, or larger scale like a 3D TV or projected even larger, or printed, etc). I like to have images large enough to capture a lot of detail and allow for a wide range of uses down the line, so I think I scanned these at about 12000 DPI. At such high resolution, I could only scan a few images at a time. In addition to using Photoshop to fix colors (and remove dust and scratches ... manually .. not with a filter), I used SPM (Stereo Photo Maker) for doing alignments. Particularly with the 'mash-up' images, View-Master images are not always aligned well. After fixing the alignments, as you might expect, the borders no longer matched up perfectly, so I "re-mounted" them, so to speak, in new, clean 'frames' to get a clean edge around the border in good alignment. I have a template I made for doing this, which I layer over the completed images.

Thanks for sharing these! What equipment were you using for the scans? I'm very impressed by the quality you were able to achieve.

Thank you Wim. Park City is certainly a colorful and photogenic town.

Nice serie!

Thanks John. I've visited your page. I'll have another look now. Regarding this photo, I did not take the photo. It was taken by a man named Guy Bell. But I did the 2D-3D conversion / collage.

Good photo!!! MAYBE GO TO MY LINK TO SEE MY NEW PHOTOS??? http://phereo.com/57df5c00888428e71e000000