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3D Anime Babes! – P365 Feb15

After being featured on and linked from a friend’s very popular blog with a very enthusiastic post about my 3D photography, I’ve been inspired to take some more 3D photos. Thanks for the link and the inspiration David!

I’ve posted some pics of some of my small anime figurine collection before, even a 3D one, but I’ve gotten a lot better at lighting such things lately, and I wanted to see how much that would help a 3D photo. For these phtoos I simply moved the tripod about 5cm to the left for the second shot, recomposing to keep the figurine in the same position within the frame. I’ll make a proper tutorial on how to take 3D photos in this way in the future.

There are some brief instructions here on how to view these images in 3D (no glasses required!)

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I’ll try to take more 3D photos in the near future.

Also, the due date for the photogrpahy project “The View From Below” is almost here! You only have a couple more days if you wish to submit an entry. There’s been a big rush of submissions in the last few days with ten coming in within the last 24 hours! At the time of writing, we’re already up to 18 participants. The quality of photos is outstanding, but don’t let that put you off. It’s all about broadening your photography skills and being part of the fun. I hope to see more entries soon!

Pt Nepean – P365 Aug25

 
 
 
 
 
Today Naomi and I went for a drive down to Morninton on an ultimately unsuccessful hunt for a photographic book (turns out there's no copies anywhere in Victoria!). However, we didn't let the day go to waste! It was beautiful weather, so we kept on driving, exploring the penninsula a bit, and eventually making our way down to the beach at Point Nepean. The images above were taken from a lookout there. You can see the location on this Google Map.

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Polarised plastic – P356 Jun07

Today I came across a fantastic little tutorial that reminded me of a cool optics phenomenon that I learned about in physics in high school. Based in the principle of polarised light, the following magnificently coloured images are of common transparent plastic objects when viewed through a polarising filter and backlit with a polarised light source.

If you have an LCD monitor, a polarising filter (or possibly even polarising sunglasses) and a camera, you can achieve this effect yourself. Make sure you check out the tutorial linked above!

The closest clear plastic when I first set this shoot up was the polarising filter case, and as you can see, it was a startling example of the effect!

Here you can see a photo of my glasses, which are rimless, and thus the lens is drilled. The distortions in the plastic caused by stresses made during the drilling process show up clearly and dramatically.

This is an object that almost everyone would have on hand, which also shows lovely subtle colour variations. In a spindle of blank CDs, the bottom one is usually a clear one which protects the last CD. Because it’s clear, it’s well suited to this kind of image. The radial line you can see at about 11 oclock looks to me like it might be the point at which the molten plastic met opposite the injection point in the mold.

I look forward to experimenting with the artistic possibilities of this technique!

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