Generating and viewing 3D photos

[pushkarDighe]

Hi All,

This is what I am trying to do:

I love photography a lot. My biggest challenge had been to convey the depth (z axis) information in the photos that I take. Professional photographers make use of intricate light and shadows to achieve this. But that is not always practical for amateur like me. So I started taking two slightly offset photos (digital) of every thing in which the depth had significant importance.

So now that I have the data and I have a Sony 3D TV to view. What I am stuck is how to get those photos converted to 3D and then ensure that my TV understands them as 3D and displays them accordingly.

Has anybody tried such stunts? If yes then can they tell me how they are converting their 2D photos to 3D and how they are viewing them? Moreover I do not want to use the anaglyphic method (red-blue), I want to use the Shutter Glass method for viewing

Thank
Pushkar

 

[madhavk8]

It simple.

*Go to paint
*Paste both right and left photos beside each other and save
*Copy it to usb and open the photo on tv
*enable 3d and choose 3d mode as side-by-side

Now you can view the photos

 

[pushkarDighe]

Thanks for the suggestion it worked perfectly but not without a good 2 hours of efforts. Here is why

The photo pair that I used to test was taken from a small point and shoot camera. Hence the individual image size was just 640 x 480 pixels. When I joined the 2 photos and changed my TVs mode to 3D, the 2 images were getting shown way apart. Since they were so far away from each other it was not possible to visually overlap them and hence I was seeing 2 images instead of single 3D.

For next couple of hours using those 2 images I tried various combinations like stretching, up and down, squashing but nothing worked. When I was about to give up I gave a last try with a photo pair which was taken by my DSLR. These photos were big in size 3240 x 2440 pixels each. When they were tried the TV in 3D mode aligned them perfectly and the 3D image was perfect.

What I understood from this is that the TVs image viewer and 3D processer are not that intelligent enough to zoom up or align smaller photos. It expects photos to be of big size (those that would almost cover the whole screen in normal mode). Finally it expects that each image would be squashed to half its size (along length only when viewing side by side and along height only when viewing over and under) and stretches them to meet the other end. All these need to be considered when trying this.

Software like MS Paint will work but if somebody is going to take many photos then they should preferable use semi professional or professional image editing software.

Thanks again for all your help we can close this thread.