Crosseyed from Nikon P950 cha-cha

Garyster wrote:

First one seems to work best due to objects in vastly different planes.

What is your process / technique for doing this? Always wanted to try.

thx

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it's relatively easy to do. Any camera will do. Hold it up to your eye, and shift your weight to you left leg. This will move the camera to the left. Take an shot, then shift your weight to the right foot...always making sure the camera is at least 2.5 inches or more to the right to get good separation. Then take another shot. If your camera has a constant white balance and contrast feature, then try using that so that your shots have the same white balance and contrast. If not,  you can try manual settings. For these shots, I simply let the camera decide on auto and they came out fine.  You will get more depth when you shift further than 2.5 inches. Too much shift and you will get miniaturization of the objects in the scene.

I often use my cellphone to take a few 3D shots wherever I go, too.

The best way to process these is to use Stereomaker. Search for it.  You can then open the images by choosing open left-right images. Then do an auto alignment and save the resulting image as a 3D image. There is more to Stereomaker, and you have to experiment to get the output you want. You can save it in different formats, such as MPO and SBS. If you want crosseyed, you simply switch the images left to right and save SBS.

When doing cha-cha (aka left/right shift) the scenery, people, etc. have to remain still between shots, so moving water is an issue, people moving, windy trees, etc. are problematic. That was what I was showing in my shots above.  Plus if you are taking a vista shot, try to get objects in the scene, both close and far to give the eye the thrill of seeing in 3D. Just having flat ground out to a mountain scene, for example, can be a little boring.

Here is a couple of examples taken at the Meadowbrook Hall mansion near where I live.

Taken with a Canon T7i in auto mode. You can see a slight difference in the white balance of the sky, but it still is fine in 3D.

Canon T7i in auto mode. Great for taking pics of flowers

Canon T7i in auto mode - great 3D depth

Canon T7i auto mode. Can see slight difference in sky again. A real eye dazzler. These type of images are great for 3D. Image doesn't flatten out for a couple hundred feet.