[3D Art + Photography] Stereo Doll
For this edition of the Photography into Art series it occurred to me that this kind of art rendering could lend itself to the third dimension as well as provide some interesting results by just basing the art on some 3D photographs. So I gave it a test, and sure enough I got some pretty good results where the artistic rendering of the original 3D pics provided some amusing 3D art results as well.
All of the images are SBS (Side By Side) 3D, which means that they are two images that superficially look the same, but are actually two different pics seen from a viewpoint a few inches apart from each other and placed side by side so that anyone can view them and see them as a 3D image by using the cross eyed technique. This is the simplest and cheapest way of viewing 3D images, as it needs no additional hardware other than your own two eyes and your brain, although it does need a little practice to get your eyes used to the technique enabling them to see and combine the two images in your brain so that it can decode them into depth and volume.
There are several methods that enable you to see 3D pics in visual stereo with no or little additional hardware: there's the mirror technique that requires a small mirror, the parallel eyed technique, and the cross-eyed technique. Personally I think the easiest and simplest one is the cross-eyed technique, and so the images below are prepared to be seen in that way (sorry, but each technique requires a different image setup). The cross-eyed technique for viewing 3D images requires just that, to view both images cross-eyed but focused so that one 3D image appears in the middle. You've probably tried one of these techniques if you have attempted to view those weird pattern images with some 3D figure hidden in them, they're called autostereograms and were somewhat of a fad some years ago.
If you don't know the technique you can find the whole cross-eyed technique explained with some practice images on the following website: http://www.2eyephotography.com/
If you already know the technique go ahead and apply it on all of the following images where I have taken the stereo image of a ceramic figure on a granite background and done some artistic rendering of the stereo images to create a new version of the images that still maintain the stereo aspect of the original, taking the flat art literally into a new dimension. The best way to enjoy these pictures is to open them each in a new tab (that is if you're on a PC, then right click on the image and on most browsers this will show the 'open image in a new tab' option, or just 'copy the image address' option and then paste into a new tab or browser window. If you're in your smartphone just holding it horizontally to view each image pair in your full screen should do the trick) in order to appreciate the full 3D experience.
This first image below is a version of the original 3D pair of the Ceramic Doll, that can be seen below in the second image. It is a secret garden kind of interpretation that makes it one of the most interesting in the series to see in full 3D, so cross your eyes and enjoy.
A Garden 3D Doll
Each side of the interpretation presents some differences when compared to the other side that have nothing to do with pure stereo distinction, but this just makes the combination of both pics more alluring as it provides for some ghost like features in the 3D illusion.
Following is the original Stereo pair of images of the ceramic doll, Check it out in a new tab on your browser or horizontally in your smartphone so you can view the full original 3D experience and compare it with the other interpretations.
Original Stereo Doll image pair
Those photographs were taken with an Olympus SH-25MR camera, and shot at f/3.9 and 1/60th sec. ISO 1600 setting. It wasn't chosen for any particular composition or aesthetic consideration, but more for the volume and depth that the ceramic figure presented while placed on the granite surface.
The next 3D version of our Ceramic Doll plays with a thick oil painting representation and this brings out some interesting shining effect textures on some parts of the image when viewed in 3D, almost like a water like a crystalline glaze.
Stereo Oil Painting Doll
On the following example we have a different painting like version with a warm color palette, and the doll's face seems to jump out in a fiery orange color.
A warm color palette 3D figurine
On this next 3D mirage of the ceramic doll we had it transform into a water color like painting in bright colors that makes the whole doll gleefully stand out, and she even seems happier in this version.
Water Color 3D Ceramic 'Happy' Doll
On a more impressionist interpretation of our doll third dimensional model we can see very notable differences between each side of the image, and yet they combine wonderfully to create a 3D version that shows some nice ghostly highlights.
Impressionist 3D Ceramic Doll
On a totally different direction we created a sand like 3D doll interpretation that without viewing it three dimensionally somehow seems really flat, maybe because it does look like a figure made of sand, but by viewing it in 3D its volume jumps out at us once again.
Sand 3D Doll
Did you like these 3D art pieces? Was it easy for you to view them in 3D? Which one did you like the most?
Photographic Sculpture
"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
Thanks to modern technology the photographic art envelope has been pushed further and further. Photography started out as only blurry and hazy black and white images, not soon after someone came up with stereo black and white side by side images that could capture volume and depth in pictures, and after some decades color was made available, with color 3D images not far behind. Currently thanks to 3D scanning and 3D printing photography can jump from flat 2D impressions or 3D visual approximations into true 3D physical realm representations. This is exactly what British photographer Nick Night has been experimenting on for a few years already.
One of his latest works resulted in a porcelain statue of Kate Moss that has been made from his real life 3D scans of the model in a collaboration with German porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg.
A porcelain statue made by 3D scanning Kate Moss
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Of that sculpture the artist commented:
"I scanned Kate naked other than a cloth wrapped around her hips and with her arms stretched out in a classical religious pose.
I then scanned the outstretched wings of a dove and positioned them on Kate's shoulders, immediately transforming her into an angel."
"They sculpted Kate from the data I had provided, which is essentially a direct mathematical and optical recording of her form."
"This was sculpture using the language of fashion photography."
His first work in Photographic Sculpture, as he named it, was a 25 feet tall triple statue of Naomi Campbell in white polystyrene. The whole process took him some two years of work and was exhibited for four months in late 2009 at Somerset House in London. He also included an interactive aspect to the exhibit.
25 foot tall Triple Naomi Campbell
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In his own words:
"My sculpture was displayed in a darkened gallery, during the SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution exhibition at Somerset House in London, and a online version was put on my website.
People from all across the globe could draw or write on the version online and whatever they wrote was then projected in real time onto the sculpture in the gallery.
So, you could be standing in the gallery and the words from someone in New York would appear written across Naomi's form in front of your eyes, then someone in Paris would draw across them and then someone else in Japan would write on those.
In the gallery there was also keypad and you could write on Naomi from there, thus starting a global conversation. Naomi in effect became a canvas for people's thoughts."
The image below depicts some of the digital graffiti that could be produced and witnessed either in person or through the artists' website (SHOWstudio).
Naomi Campbell Statue being intervened in real time
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In some not too distant future we can envision that photography will evolve into some kind of 3D scanning portable camera that will be paired with some form of 3D color printer that will render real physical copies of the scanned images, or maybe some form of holographic facsimiles of the same, who knows?
For further information on photographer Nick Night and his Photographic Sculptures check out the following websites:
***“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” ***
― Ansel Adams
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