Ok, so you have tried to make your own images in 3D, and maybe you need to get some bugs out if. Keeping images on the same focal plane is tough, and using a tripod is only part of the solution. You still need to move the camera the 55mm, and if you pan the head of the tripod, you will not get a correct 3D image, you will get some gobbledygook that will give the viewer a serious headache. So what do you do?
Well I have some solutions. An idea I touched on in my last how to post is to set your camera on a wall, or something sturdy to shoot on. Railings can work well, top of a car, whatever you can find. One solution is to get a custom head. I got one of these:
Manfrotto wormscrew macro photography rig.
it has a wormscrew so you can do fine adjustments for macro photography, but I move it 55mm (using the measuring gauge on the front) for each eye shot. If you want to really get creative, try to put a tilt pan head on top of this! Setup properly, you can get consistently spaced shots every time. They run about 120 bucks on Amazon.
Or you could pick up a special “lens in a cap” for shooting stereoscopic images in one capture. I used to have one of these Loreo image splitters (but it got crushed in my luggage on a flight) and it works well but you are only going to get about 40% of your image between the split and the distortion. This is a great solution for shooting moving objects like people, or nature in windy conditions.
Here are some examples of my shots with it and the 3D images I created:
Image is split, and there is some transitional distortion that will need to be cropped out…
End result. You will always end up with a Portrait orientation with this method…
I recently found this on Amazon, and I’ll post a review once I get mine!
Another thing to keep in mind is that the focus and exposure must be the same for both shots. You don’t want your eyes bugging out on you while your brain tries to decide what focus plane to hone in on when looking at 3D images.
More hints on the way. Hope you are making some 3D images yourself!