Camp tintype 2024

Last year was my 2nd experience over at John Coffer’s famous Tintype Jamboree and I decide to take my stereo camera with me to create 3D images of the beautiful homestead that John Has built for himself. The first year I came to this gathering I felt nervous and just wanted to me meet people and have fun and not be pressured to create artwork like so many of my peers have been doing. The humidity and rain was no joke!

2024 I came more preapaired for the mud and rain and weather. I can’t thank my friends Dave & Ana for hosting me with their family and helping me acquire a darkroom, equipment and letting me send chemistry over to them so I can take part of the action.

What is a stereograph? (copy and pasted from wikipedia)

“Traditional stereoscopic photography consists of creating a 3D illusion starting from a pair of 2D images, a stereogram. The easiest way to enhance depth perception in the brain is to provide the eyes of the viewer with two different images, representing two perspectives of the same object, with a minor deviation equal or nearly equal to the perspectives that both eyes naturally receive in binocular vision.”

How can I free view these images?

To "free view" 3D images on a computer, you need to look at a specially designed "stereo pair" image on your screen while consciously relaxing your eye muscles and focusing your gaze slightly beyond the screen, allowing your brain to merge the two slightly offset images into a single 3D perception; this is often done by either "parallel viewing" (staring straight at the screen) or "cross-viewing" (crossing your eyes slightly) depending on the image format, and may require some practice to achieve the effect.