Mon 15 Jun 2009
Accidental Stereograms
Posted by Ken Atherton under Daily Life
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I’ve started a new project, which has slowed down my posting recently compared to the last few months: Our 2009 Christmas video.
Yes, already.
This year will be our 10th year making a Christmas video, so we’re trying to make it special. I want the main video to be mostly new material, but I want to remember Christmases past as well. Part of that effort means that I’m going back through old photos to find pictures of our kids that we might incorporate into the video.
As a side effect, I’ve noticed that some of the pictures among the 30,000 or so we’ve taken in the last ten years are of the same subjects from different angles, sometimes at very different times. The picture I posted from the Normandy American Cemetery the other day was made this way: The two shots are were taken at two different distances from the statue, so I zoomed one of the images and cropped it to make the picture. You can tell which image is zoomed, because it is clearly lower resolution than the other one.
So as I go through our old pictures, I’m pulling out other images that I can stitch together this way. Some of the ones I’ve found are striking in 3D, even though they were entirely accidental. Others, however, didn’t turn out so well, but the hits have been well worth dealing with the misses. I will be posting several of the best images over the next several days.
