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A silly self photo of me
relaxing on the grass at the Palace of Fine
Arts. The images in this row were all taken with the club's funky
loaner
camera that they make available to new members.
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| Another Palace of Fine
Arts snap from the same day. |
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| Joe Recto, a good friend
of mine learning to ground-handle a paraglider
before taking to the skys. This image took first place in the B
division. A nice introduction to the club competition for me. Thanks,
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| This next set is from a
trip in my friend Christian's small plane. He
lets me open the canopy in-flight to take snapshots out the side.
Assembling them into hyper-stereo images is a lot of fun because it
gives you a god's eye view of things that you can't normally see in 3D.
Here I'm experimenting with non-rectangular cropping to reduce the
amount of detail in one eye's view that is not also in the other. |
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A reservoir near the
Grapevine pass between the Central Valley and the San Fernando Valley.
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Docks seen on landing
approach into San Carlos. Playing with the "tilt-shift" Photoshop
camera effect which makes everything look like tiny models. This works
especially well with hyper-stereo images. In this case making the ships
look like bathtub toys.
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This is my girlfriend
Mikayla inside a cool underground passage in the Presideo. Most of my
stereo photos like this one are done with a normal camera by taking two
consequetive shots from different angles. In some cases like this one,
that involves asking my subjects to remain motionless between the two
shots as any motion will create obvious problems.
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The Golden Gate Bridge
from a Presideo overlook. I used a lot of Photoshop work to erase the
boats that moved between the shots and to insert the zeppelin which I
snapped in the same general area a couple weeks later.
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A view from our Apartment.
I replaced the flat white sky with a more interesting one whose color
scheme matched the rest of the image. This one took 3rd place in my
division.
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This is Critter, our sweet
kitty. Amazing that she held still enough for me to take separate
stereo images, but then it took me a lot
of tries before I got a good pair.
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Extreme close-up of an
Orchid Rockrose in the Presideo.
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Beautiful white roses on
the Lucas campus.
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Stone path leading down to
the white roses.
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The Marina at dusk got me
an honorable mention.
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Tilt-shift hyper stereo
snap of downtown San Francisco taken from a cross country flight with
our cheap point-and-shoot camera.
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I used a rented
professional camera for this set of hyper stereo images and it sure
does make a difference! Another experiment in non-rectangular cropping.
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Downtown Los Angeles. The
judge was amazed that the buildings looked just like little chess
pieces. It got an honorable mention which is nice because I like it a
lot.
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Sunrise breaking through
the clouds. Rather washed out but I really like the idea of showing
radiating sun rays in 3D, and it achieves that at least. What looks
like ground beneath your feet is actually rolling hills thousands of
feet down.
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Composite stereogram
created from carefully selected exposures taken from the pair of solar
satellites called SOLAR.
The satellites were about 30 million miles apart at the time and each
image is a false-color composite of exposures at three different
wavelengths of ultra violet.
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Just for fun, a 3D photo
of my family looking at a 3D photo. The images on the laptop were
changed between snapping the left and right images so that you can see
the laptop image in stereo even if they didn't.
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10,000 volts create this
table-top aurora.
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A magical valley from the
coast road just north of Santa Cruz. Don't know why but it always calls
to me when I drive past.
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Raptor sanctuary
in the Marin Headlands along the edge of the cliffs over the Golden Gate.
The road appears to dead-end at the bunkers at the top of this hill but this
little-known picturesque one-way road snakes down from there towards the light house.
This photo was shot from a little knoll partway down and looking back.
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