3D Photography

I've dabbled in "3D" photography now and then. While flying back from Iowa, I had the chance to grab a few more shots that could be used as a kind of stereographic image. Instead of using a contraption to view it through, it can be done with a "split" photo - such as this one:


Instead of your eyes focusing on two images straight ahead as a stereograph or ViewMaster did, they focus on the image on the opposite side. That is, your right eye goes to the left image and the left eye goes to the right image. Doing so creates the same effect. Try it. Click on the image above to make it full size if you like. (The image is 1280 pixels wide.) Then cross your eyes just enough to make the images merge into one, tilting your head a little bit if you need to. When you get it right, you will see three images with the 3D image in the center - no goofy glasses, no strange contraption out of the 1800's, no ViewMaster. This kind of photography is called "3D Cross-View". The method of viewing in stereo this way is called "freeview", apparently because you can view it in 3D - free of any "thing" or gizmo to help you.

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