A 3D photo exhibition

BANGALORE: James Cameroon’s Avatar is was what got him on his feet. The 3D technology that has still not made its entry into India, is being explored by Gururaj Talawar, a stereographer (most commonly called a 3D photographer), who recently inaugurated his first exhibition of three-dimensional still photography at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, on Friday.Talawar uses ‘dual equipment’, where two digital cameras are placed on a platform and are used to click pictures simultaneously. The platform is designed by him for his own purposes. “The pressure of capturing a picture is basically due to the lack of technical equipment. I have to look at the frames on both screens of the camera while framing the object. The calculation has to be precise and requires a lot of concentration,” said the amateur photographer.He further added, “The best part is that, anybody can take a 3D picture even with a mobile phone camera. My purpose of hosting this exhibition is to reach out to the common people.”The exhibition has a display of about 40 pictures and also has a video screening of the other 150 pictures he has captured.He uses the anaglyph format of photography to click an object of interest. Anaglyph format is where stereographic effect is induced in the viewer with the help of glasses that have lenses of two chromatically opposite colours, ie, red and cyan. These are called the anaglyphic glasses. The binocular vision of a human eye relies on the fact that the two eyes are spaced about two inches apart. Therefore, each eye perceives an object from a slightly different perspective. The binocluar vision correlates the images to form the 3D vision.A photograph taken from the two cameras are superimposed during post-production. The coloured filters of the glasses separate the images, so each image enters one eye and the brain puts the two pictures back together. This gives the desired three-dimensional effect when seen through the anaglyphic glasses. On October 30, a special screening of his video that shows old Kannada films shot in 2D being converted to 3D, will be shown at the venue.