What Is It?
This event is sponsored by OSPS (Ohio Stereo
Photographic Society, www.Ohio3D.com)
and NSA
(National Stereoscopic Association, the world’s largest stereoscopic
organization -see: http://www.stereoview.org/)
and organized by George Themelis (NSA Eastern Midwest Regional Director;
the Eastern Midwest region includes the following states: Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia) and John Waldsmith (founding member
of NSA and first Editor of Stereo World.)
Who Will be There?
The previous years we had 50-100 attendees,
including people from Canada, UK and various states of the USA. Last
year (2008) we had 55 attendees, including some well-known names in the 3D
Community, like Al Sieg, Lee Pratt, Steve Hughes, etc. From these 55, 22 were local club members.
Here is a (very short) report: 2008Report.pdf
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The winners of the 2008 on-site stereo
competition (left to right):
Al Sieg, Jay
Horowitz, Leslie
Feagan, Steve
Hughes, Barb
Gauche,
Lee Pratt, Andrea
Shetley, Rob
Ellis, John
Stuart. Photo by Rich Golan.
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Time/Schedule
- Details
6:00 PM - Registration & Auction Preview (follow
the signs)
7:00
PM - Photographica Auction,
featuring a large View-Master collection, vintage stereoviews, photographic
images, and much more, conducted by John Waldsmith. For details and the
pictures, see: http://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/613501.html
7:00
AM - Setup for Trade Show & Stereo Projection - Dealer Setup.
Conference Rooms on 2nd floor
8:00
AM to 4:00 PM - Sales/Exhibit Room open (Sales Room open for FREE to public)
8:30
AM -
11:30 AM - Stereo Theatre Morning Session
8:30: Welcome &
Opening remarks
8:40: PSA Stereo Sequence Exhibition, Lee Pratt (Director)
9:30: What I photograph (Stereo Biography), by Dwight Harvey
10:00: Blacklight Fantasy in 3-D, by Andrea Shetley
10:30: Santorini, by George Themelis
11:00: Building A Digital Stereo Camera (Workshop) by Timo Puhakka
11:30 AM to
1:00 PM
- Lunch Break
1:30 PM to
4:00 PM
- Stereo Theatre afternoon
session
1:00: Polarization of
Light (Workshop), by George Themelis
1:30: A.C. Platt Stereo Views of Sandusky and Put-in-Bay, John Waldsmith
2:00: 50 Favorite Stereo Images, by Dennis Green
2:15: Excerpts from 'Space-3D: A NASA Holiday Lecture', by Jay Horowitz
2:45: Fractal Fantasy, by Jerry Oldaker and John Hart
3:00: On-site Stereo Competition, Barb & Paul Gauce (Directors) **
** We need your
entries for the Competition by 11:30 AM. 3 entries per participant (film
or digital - for projection)
4:00
PM
End of session, breakdown/pack-up
4:30 PM to
7:00 PM
- Dinner
7:00 PM
3-D Movie at Sandusky
The movie theater is
part of the Carmike Cinemas: http://www.carmike.com/showtimedetails.aspx?theatrenumber=075915
Right now it is
showing Monsters vs. Aliens, playing at 7:10 pm, however they have told John
Waldsmith that they will have two 3-D movies on Saturday, the other being
"Battle for Terra" which premiers on Friday night.
11:30
AM - Special 3-D Photo Tour
of the Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio
Chuck Weiss has
arranged a special tour of the Browns Football Stadium, starting promptly at
12:00 noon. The cost is $5.00 paid to the guide. There will be a sign-up
sheet at Registration plus driving directions. This is a great tour and terrific
opportunity to take some unusual 3-D Photos.
7:30
PM -
OSPS stereo club meeting. You are invited to extend your stay and
attend our stereo club meeting. The program for the May 5 meeting includes
Member's Presentations / Open Projector, and our last stereo slide competition
for the year (subject is "Open"). For more details and
directions, see www.ohio3d.com.
Stereoscopic
Programs
| 8:30 - 11:30 AM |
Morning Session - Film Programs |
John Bueche (OSPS President)
John Waldsmith
George Themelis |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| Lee Pratt (Director) |
2008 PSA Stereo Sequence Exhibition - This has always been one of the most popular
programs in our club. |
| Dwight Harvey |
What I Photograph - Stereo Biography with
100
slides, live narration and background music. Dwight will tell us how
he got started in stereo photography, what equipment he is using, what
pictures he likes to take, etc. |
| Andrea Shetley |
Backlight Fantasy in 3-D - A
creative demonstration of how ordinary objects can be transformed into
strange and unusual photographic subjects...even bordering on bizarre. |
| George Themelis |
Santorni - One of the most
photogenic Greek islands, photographed during our family vacation last
year. |
| Timo Puhakka |
Building a Digital Stereo Camera
(Workshop) - Mounting and synchronizing twin digital cameras.
Various camera mounting arrangements will be discussed, with a detailed
focus on Z-bar rigs.
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| 1:00-4:00 PM |
Afternoon Session -
Digital (mostly) Programs |
| George Themelis |
Polarization
of Light and how it is Applied in Stereo Projection and 3-D Movies
(Workshop) - The differences between linear and circular
polarization and some fun experiments you can do with the “free”
RealD glasses that you get from the recent 3-D Movies. |
| John Waldsmith |
Stereo
Views of Sandusky and Put-in-Bay by A. C. Platt - A.C. Platt was the
leading photographer in Sandusky, Ohio from about 1870 to the 1880s.
He documented in stereo the thriving port city on Lake Erie and the
tourist resort of Put-in-Bay. We will show views of the county
seat building and a series of the city from the rooftop. Also
views of the steamboats and docks. Of particular interest are the
resort hotels and pavilions at Put-in-Bay plus Gibraltar Island which
featured the summer home of Jay Cooke. |
| Dennis Green |
Favorite Stereo Slides - A collection of 50
favorite stereo slides with background music. |
| Jay Horowitz |
Experts
from “Space-3D: A NASA Holiday Lecture” - Every December NASA
Glenn Research Center hosts a holiday lecture on topics of broad
interest to the public, particularly children. This past year Jay
Horowitz gave a 3D presentation showing stereo images of the sun, moon
and planets, how NASA uses stereo imagery in it's research, and a little
bit of the history of stereo photography.
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| John Hart & Jerry Oldaker |
Fractal
Fantasy - This program features the incredible 3-D fractal artwork
of Jerry Oldaker, stereo photography by John Hart, and original music by
Marie Rhines. Jerry's images are animated in a number of ways using
ProShow Producer to generate complex motions of the compositions.
Fractal structures move around and through each other. Many scenes
are composed with multiple objects translating differentially in X, Y,
and Z over a distant background. The intent was to include as much
motion as was practical in order to enhance the digital presentation of
what is basically static ("still") art and photography.
This program won the Paul Wing and Best Video awards at NSA2008.
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| Barb & Paul Gauche (Directors) |
On-Site Stereo Competition - Each
participant can enter up to 3 stereo images (film or digital). Entries
must be received by 11:30 am. These will be judged by a panel of 3
judges and the top-scoring images will receive awards. The
audience will vote for their favorite image and select the “People’s
Choice” for an extra award.
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Presenter's
Information
| Lee Pratt
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Dwight
Harvey
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Andrea L.
Shetley
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| George
Themelis
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Timo Puhakka
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John
Waldsmith
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| Dennis Green
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Jay
Horowitz
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John Hart
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Lee Pratt
- Lee is a Fellow of PSA (FPSA) and a Master Level 5 stereo
photographer. He has been interested in 3D since the 1970’s. He is a
member of PSA, NSA, ISU, SSA, and several camera clubs.
Dwight Harvey - Dwight Harvey first became
interested in stereo photography in high school in about 1969, when his
grandmother gave him an old stereoscope and her old stereoscope cards. When he
saw a two-lensed camera at a yard sale 12 years later, he knew that it could
take pictures like the ones on the old cards, and he snatched up the Busch
Verascope for $25. But, he did not really get started until an experienced
photographer from
Wisconsin
named Harry Richards introduced him to the Stereoscopic Society of America (SSA)
at the Richmond NSA Convention in 1998. About the same time, his daughter
began playing tournament softball, and Dwight began to buy equipment to take
stereoscopic pictures of her ball games with a 35mm SLR twin-rig .It wasn't long
until he was immersed in the hobby. In July, 2003, Dwight took the plunge
into competitive PSA exhibitions. In his first exhibition, the 2003 PSA
International, Dwight took a gold medal "Best of Show." Since then, he
has had pictures accepted for exhibition throughout the
United States
and in
England
and
Australia
. Over the last couple of years, Dwight has spent more time concentrating on
larger projects involving documentary photography. Dwight
has also been a member of the Potomac Society of Stereo Photographers in
Washington, D. C. since about 2003, and currently serves as Society treasurer
and bulletin editor.
Andrea L. Shetley
- Andrea L. Shetley, APSA, has been involved in photography for more than 30
years, and stereo photography for the last 14 years. She uses Pentax digital SLR
bodies with an assortment of lens and accessories, an RBT stereo film camera,
and a Kodak compact digital camera. Andrea is the past president of the
Huntsville Photographic Society in
Alabama
. She also is a member of many other local, national, and international
photography organizations, and has held or currently holds board positions in
several. Andrea is the cofounder of the PSA Mid-Atlantic Chapter. She has
received the PSA Joseph P. Fallon Award (for new membership work), the PSA
Harold D. Lorimor Award (for leadership in photography), a PSA Stereo Division
Chairman’s Appreciation Award, an Associate Honor in PSA (APSA), and the PSA
Stuyvesant Peabody Memorial Award (for significant contribution to pictorial
photography). She has given many programs and workshops to camera clubs and
photography conferences nationwide; and has been published in several magazines
(including cover shots). Andrea has a PSA 4-star stereo rating, competes in and
judges photography competitions locally and internationally, and has received
many top awards. Her interests are mostly nature-oriented, with emphasis on
close-ups of flowers and insects (especially praying mantises). Other subjects
she enjoys are architecture, abstracts, and blacklight. Andrea currently resides
in rural
Fayetteville
,
Tennessee
, with her four cats. She is landscaping her farm to create more opportunities
for nature photography.
George Themelis
- George (or DrT as he is better known in the stereoscopic community)
discovered stereo photography and joined NSA in 1988. His first stereo
camera was a Stereo Realist. In 1997 he helped start the Ohio Stereo
Photographic Society (OSPS) in Cleveland. Today George keeps himself
busy with a variety of stereo-related activities. He is the Editor of
the OSPS newsletter “Stereogram” where he publishes stereo Tutorials
every month, repairs stereo cameras and viewers and also
buys/sells/trades stereo equipment and supplies for stereo photography
(his web site is: www.drt3d.com). He also takes plenty of stereo
pictures using slide film and various stereo cameras.
Timo Puhakka - Timo started in
Stereo photography in the early 80s. A
close friend loaned him his
Revere
camera when he went backpacking through southern
Britain
. He then acquired a Kodak stereo camera for himself.
His interest in stereo helped get him a job as a Camera Technician at
IMAX, although he was never given the IMAX stereo rig to work on.
He was instead responsible for the Space Shuttle In Cabin Camera until
about 1991. As the digital age came
in and the blogs started to talk of the imminent demise of Kodachrome film, he
started building digital stereo rigs based on IR synch.
He sold several of these rigs, but moved to Stereo Data Maker based
cameras, as soon as he discovered this avenue.
He remains primarily a film photographer, preferring Kodachrome to
everything else. He has now upgraded
his primary camera to a Wollensak (thank goodness for eBay), and he is dabbling
in medium format with his Sputnik. He
has also started collecting select stereo cards and viewmaster reels, and has
built several stereo viewers.
John Waldsmith
- John began collecting stereo views in 1971. In the beginning he
collected everything 3-D but eventually found that his money and space
was limited enough that he had to specialize so he limited his stereo
view collection to just views of Ohio by Ohio photographers or
publishers. John is a co-founder of the National Stereoscopic Association and a
past vice-president, editor of Stereo World and librarian of the NSA
Oliver Wendell Holmes Stereoscopic Research Library. He is also the
author of Stereo Views, An Illustrated History and Price Guide. His wife
Janet is retired after thirty years of teaching. John is also a licensed
and bonded auctioneer and Janet helps him as his clerk and greatest fan.
Dennis Green - Dennis first
discovered stereo photography when he found a Stereo Realist in a camera store
in
New England
while touring with the U.S. Army Field Band in 1971.
After taking stereo images for a couple of years, his stereo activity
went dormant for 20 years to be rekindled in 1993.
He joined the Detroit Stereographic Society in 1995 and started entering
their themed competitions, as well as entering PSA competitions.
Now close to achieving his fifth PSA star (given for 288 acceptances of
75 different images), Dennis has put together this program of 50 of his favorite
award winners from the
Detroit
competitions. Dennis is also the
newsletter editor for
Detroit
's "Stereo Window", and is the chair for the 2009 Stereoscopic Society
of America International Stereo Card Exhibition which will be judged at the NSA
convention in
Mesa
in July."
Jay Horowitz - While pursuing
stereoscopic imaging technology in my role as a scientific visualization
specialist for NASA, I rekindled a long dormant interest in stereo photography.
I now find many opportunities to mix work and pleasure. At NASA I produce
computer generated 3D imagery of complex data as well as photographs of wind
tunnels and rocket engines. Outside
work, I take photographs of friends, family, and anything the Ohio Stereo
Photographic Society's competitions entice me to take. Equally fond and
frustrated by both film and digital, I will gladly argue the merits of each over
the other.
John Hart - John is a
professor (emeritus) of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the
University
of
Colorado
. He uses 3D imaging in his
laboratory research in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, and
especially likes to photograph subjects that stretch the limits of the
medium in space and time. He also enjoys adventure sports like kayaking
and canyoneering, which provide their own exciting 3D opportunities.
Jerry
Oldaker - Jerry is a retired railroad engineer, who 5 years
ago decided to focus on making large cross-eye prints of fractal scenes.
He developed methods and adapted software to the challenging task of
creating high-resolution fractal art that approaches the boundaries of what is
possible even on today's fastest multi-core PC's.
His print exhibition at NSA2008 won the Best Art Display award
