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My Stereo Optics Archive
Twin Peaks
Wasatch Mountain 1
Wasatch Mountain 2
Each page contains two pictures of the same object that are taken from different locations (about 100 meters apart). In order to see the neat 3D effect, you have to cross your eyes and stare straight ahead until the two images combine into one. You right eye ends up looking at the image on the left and your left eye sees the imgage on the right. The resulting effect is a perspective that is the same as if your eyes were 100 meters apart.

Right now I am working on creating the same effect with the moon. This is a little bit more tricky because of the sharp contrast between the bright moon and the dark sky. Unless I use a filter, I won't be able to see any surface detail. Since the moon is so far away, the only way I can achieve a stereo effect is by shooting the moon when it rises and again when it sets, giving me a displacement of roughly 1.5 times the radius of the earth. If I had an unobstructed horizon at the equator of the earth, I would achieve a displacement as much as twice the radius of the earth.