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A Few More Initial Wigglegram Attempts

This post contains more "Wigglegrams" made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day.

Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse.

The first three presented below are simple two-frame wigglegrams, so there's no feeling of "movement"... just "3D". They are much less compelling than the many-frame wigglegrams we'll see later.

Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) -- sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect 写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「3D」な感じが出ます。 Engulfed [...]
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A “Wigglegram” From The Garden at Kyoto’s Shouzan Resort

So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls "wiggle stereoscopy", but I hereby dub "Wigglegram".

(Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.)

My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control to the user: just sweep your mouse from side to side over the image to animate, as slowly or quickly as you like. I did something like this years ago for my "Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks" post.

The scene is from the garden [...]


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Portrait Practice Among the Fall Colors, with Paul Barr

Having become interested in upping my skill in taking portraits, I cornered Paul Barr to pose for some while we were at the Shisendo Temple (詩仙堂) yesterday (a wonderful place Damien Douxchamps introduced me to in a visit last week, a few photos from which made it to this post).

I brought my laptop with these photos to A's Bar, a hole-in-the-wall restaurant/bar with really excellent food (try the udon and avocado/salmon salads), and processed them with Paul. The limitless artistic directions that Lightroom affords meant we went round and round with each photo, but in the end is seems [...]


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Annoying or Interesting? “Special” Photos From the Iwato Ochiba Shrine

I mentioned in my previous post that I'm not generally a fan of the wide-angle lens, so I find the photo above somewhat annoying, but also somewhat attractive. I can't decide.

The next two items likely fall into the same category for many folks.... two-frame animated GIFs that give a "3D viewer" feeling, like those old image-pair glasses we had as kids...

I've long noticed that when flipping among images in Lightroom, sometimes I get a momentary 3D stereo feeling when adjacent images are almost identical except for a slight horizontal displacement (like our two eyes' horizontal displacement), and [...]


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Kyoto Fall Foliage 2012 Preview: A Few From Last Year

Yesterday was a really blustery day, with cold, biting wind.... really the first true taste of autumn here in Kyoto. Made me want to peek at some of the many photos I haven't even look at yet from last year's fall-foliage season. Here are a few random photos from four separate outings with Paul Barr during the last week of November (last year).

From the same outing: "Some Rustic Temple/Shrine Visits in Western Kyoto" and a bunch of shots on "A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November".

Yoshiminedera (善峯寺) is an autumn favorite. Shots from this particular outing appeared [...]


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