[roadtonowhere08]

Hey Guys,

Recently I went on vacation with my family to Maui. I really enjoyed the week I was there. The temperature and humidity drove me NUTS though. I like cold and rainy weather. Yeah, it was not that. The island is nice and calm, and the SIGHTS!!! The water was very clear and the trees were so green. While there, I made it my mission to practice my anaglyph making skills. So armed with my Canon Powershot A630 and my two eyes, I searched for the best place to make them. I was so busy and everything was so beach oriented for the majority of the trip, I could not find a good place. Finally, on the last day, I persuaded everyone to go to Iao Valley State Park which is in a deep valley in the middle of the western part of the island. I cannot put into words how gorgeous this location is. I really enjoyed taking photos and breathing in the cooler air.

I learned that to take anaglyphs, you take two almost identical photos, about two inches apart. This is to simulate what your eyes see. The trick is to get a full shot with plenty going on but with NO MOVEMENT. It was occasionally windy, and I spaced a few sets too far apart to be of any use together, but here are the ones I like.

I scaled them down to 1600x1200 to fit in Imageshack's limit. The second one just blows me away every time I see it...

 

[AuroraProject]

?? I thought it was Iao Valley? Googling it produces results for both spellings. Beautiful place either way!

 

[roadtonowhere08]

You're right...

 

[GAD]

Cool!

GAD

 

[roadtonowhere08]

I know this is a grave robbing bump, but there has to be someone into making anaglyphs out there. I had some pictures lying around, and I figured I'd bump this thread.

Fun with cameras and headphone amps...

 

[DeusEx]

Nice...I have a bunch of glasses from some event on file...

 

[fraseyboy]

Wow, that headphone amp one is incredible, even through my old scratched ones which seem to blurr everything. The only issue I have is that there appears to be two of the foreground RCA sockets, one red and one normal.

 

[roadtonowhere08]

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Originally Posted by fraseyboy /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wow, that headphone amp one is incredible, even through my old scratched ones which seem to blurr everything. The only issue I have is that there appears to be two of the foreground RCA sockets, one red and one normal.

Yeah, some shots are very hard to make just right because of the perspective. The foreground moves more than the background, so in pictures with lots of variations in distances, the foreground does not align perfectly. Each picture has to be tuned so that the best parts of each picture are aligned just right.

There are devices you can mount on a tripod that you can use to make each picture as close to perfect as possible with regards to perspective, but these are all shot by hand using only the crosshairs of the viewfinder to use as a focal point. Not perfect, but good enough to yield some fun pictures.