Felix Russo 3D Photography
The HHCC welcomed Felix Russo to it's November 2014 club night. Felix gave some great tips on how looking at the world with 3D photography in mind can make you a better 2D photographer, as well as how easy it is to take 3D pictures with everything from a point and shoot to a DSLR. We ended the night with a great picture of all of us in 3D with our glasses on...
So here are some of Felix's great tips as well as a basic of how to make a 3D picture using photoshop and 2 images taken with any camera. If you happen to experiment send me your pictures and I'll add them to the slideshow !
So here are some of Felix's great tips as well as a basic of how to make a 3D picture using photoshop and 2 images taken with any camera. If you happen to experiment send me your pictures and I'll add them to the slideshow !
- Thought of the night " Why do we take pictures using only one eye when we have two ?"
- There are many mounts and methods that can be used to multipurpose to hold 2 cameras so you have 2 exact images... you can also use one camera and move approx 6 cm left and right to get the double point of view required for 3D images.
- When gauging a scene remember a large object will appear as the background in an image
- Depth can be created many ways: an oblique angle will infer depth; objects further away appear smaller thus creating depth; texture and gradient can create depth
- Remember objects more than 150 feet away will not show depth
- When you are taking pictures YOU are the only one with the point of view of your image, even someone standing right beside you will not share the same point of view
- The distance from your subject to the camera will determine scale
- For great full depth images think foreground, mid ground, background when planning your images. If you can identify all these things in your image it will have that full look
- Objects photographed flat to the camera will appear 2 dimensional and flat. Add angles for depth and interest
- When setting up for a 3D picture complex full images work best, you need things throughout the image for the 3D effect to work best.
- For some great 3D work check out Julian Beever who is the chalk artist Felix spoke about and don't forget to check out PhotoEd magazine
- Take 2 images on a tripod. The images need to be from two spots approx 6 cm apart. Move left and right in the Felix "cha cha" if not using a tripod Choose stationary objects in your images.
- In Photoshop, open both images
- Select your "left" image, go into the channels and select the RED channel only. Select all of the image and Copy
- Select you "right" image, go into channels and select the RED channel, then view all channels while on the RED channel ( make sure the box beside each channel colour is checked on but the RED channel should be highlighted). Paste the "left" image you copied in Step 3 onto the "right" image.
- Move pasted image around until front most objects align. This keeps the image "in the box" otherwise it will look like the front items are outside of the image frame. Once aligned crop the sides (where the images no longer overlap) and save. Take a look with your 3D glasses !
