Pix

There's no theme to these pages yet -- I'm still playing around trying to decide what I want to do. For the moment I'll just dump a very few of the 7,000+ images that are sitting on my disk into one of two categories:

I. Experiments

It's a lot of fun to play with different types photography. Two styles that interest me at the moment are Stereo 3-D and Panoramic photography. Here are some examples.

Stereo 3-D

The basic principle is to take two pictures that are separated by approximately the distance between your eyes, and use these two views to recreate the experience of depth.

A few experiments in free-view (no glasses) cross-eyed and wigglevision.

My first Quicktime VR panorama

Warning: This is 3.8 MB, and is pretty boring -- just the patio in back of the house. It also is an excellent illustration of an inappropriate subject for technical reasons. The interaction of horizontal subject lines with the scan lines produces an astoundingly unpleasant moire effect. Because I'm mostly interested in non-architectural shots, this shouldn't be a big problem. This was produced with Canon QuickStitch using 22 photos taken on a tripod with various devices to position the lens nodal point over the axis of rotation. More on the technique when/if I produce more of these.

Panoramic mosaic

Here is the result of stitching 19 photos using AutoStitch.

II. Places

I'd like to put more photos one the web for family and friends, but haven't decided exactly how I want to do it. Here are a couple of examples.

Brugge / Brouge, Belgium

This is a very pleasant, touristically attractive, city - old buildings and nice canals. We were there in November 2004, and altho it was a bit cool and had a little rain, it was still quite nice. I wouldn't want to be there in the high tourist season. Here are a few 2-3 frame panoramas.

Lee Point, Suttons Bay, Michigan, USA

Four directions from the beach one morning in August 2004. Panoramas a few frames wide.