John Dennis Anaglyph Stereo Photographs of The Netherlands

John Dennis is the editor of Stereo World magazine

These photographs were made on a trip to The Netherlands, May, 1997 for the International Stereoscopic Union Congress at Rolduc. He used a Realist-format camera shooting black and white film. After he had selected several for his magazine, he sent the rest to me, Michael Gordon, to see if any were suitable for the club journal, Stereoscopy Magazine. Indeed, many are good, too many for either magazine -- so, for a limited time, here is a collection of anaglyph conversions of some of John Dennis' photographs.

Technical data: Scanned with a Polaroid Sprintscan 35, some at 675 dots per inch, others at 1020 dots per inch. Cropped and "windowed" as appropriate, then saved as greyscale TIFF files on CD-ROM. Selected pairs were combined in Corel "Photo Paint" (version 5) using the "combine images" function. It is smart enough to anticipate that if two files are loaded into memory, and one contains an "L" and the other an "R", it will automatically set up the combiner so that the left image gets the red layer, and the right image gets green and blue layers. Then I save the files as Windows Bitmaps. Finally, I use Micrografx' "Photo Magic" to do any titles, since it writes on-screen as you type, and performs anti-aliasing, or blended (not jaggy) edged lettering very easily. It runs rings around any other photo editing program for adding titles, and it is cheap!