How To 3D; Beach Bums; Baptism by Fire; Silverton Saves LA; World 3-D Film Expo; World 3-D Film Expo; Keystone-Mast Collection; REEL-D; Monterey Magic; Reporter's Roundtable
How To 3D
As part of the 3-D extravaganza, John Rabe shows you how to make your own 3-D photos.
Taking Stereo Photos
A Handy Guide by John Rabe, host of Off-Ramp
89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio
Introduction
All you need is a standard digital camera with an infinity focus, somewhat steady hands, and an eye for good stereo subjects.
A viewer is also helpful. Inexpensive viewers are available through www.3dstereo.com. The Squeeze-Vu model works well for home viewing 3" x 5" images. The site also has kits for traditional 3.5" x 7" viewers.
For more on stereo photos, visit our Web site at http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/
John Rabe, Wildlife Photographer
Instructions
1) Look for a good stereo photo subject, with something in the foreground that accentuates the stereo effect.
An object that goes from the foreground to the back of the picture, like the railing in the picture of John and Queena below, is also effective. Note how Queena's tilted left foot also adds to the effect.
2) Using the infinity focus feature, take one photo, then move the camera about 2.5 inches (the distance between your eyes) and take another photo. Be careful to keep the camera in the same plane between shots.
If you are using the Squeeze-Vu photo viewer, shoot the photos in portrait (vertical) format.
If you are using an old fashioned stereopticon, shoot them in landscape (horizontal) format.
3) Print the photos. If you are printing the photos directly, use these size guidelines:
For Squeeze-Vu viewer: 2.5" wide by 3.25" high. For old-fashioned viewer: 3.25" wide by 2.5" high.
If you're using the Windows Printing Wizard, pick the "wallet size" prints.
4) Cut out the photos. Keep track of which photo was taken on the left, and which was taken on the right.
5) Attach the photos to a 3"x5" card, directly adjacent to each other (no space in between them).
6) Place the card with the photos in the viewer.
7) If the images don't blend properly, you can adjust them up-down/side-to-side until they do.
8) Take lots of stereo photos and bug your friends with them until they get stereo photo fever themselves.
Beach Bums
Many owners of Malibu beach houses have been illegally keeping you and me off the beach. Before you head to the ocean this Labor Day, blogger Jenny Price tells you how to beat the Malibu beach bums, exercise your rights, and enjoy the beach at the same time.
Jenny Price visits Broad Beach in Malibu, takes you to Lechuza State Beach and takes you to Escondido Beach.
Baptism by Fire
Every Saturday, hundreds of Latino immigrants make the pilgrimage to Our Lady the Queen of the Angeles, Los Angeles' oldest mission Church, to get their babies baptized. The Church baptizes one hundred babies every two hours or more than three hundred babies every Saturday...
For immigrants who are trying to keep their tradition while struggling to survive, the draw is simple. Unlike other churches, Our Lady doesn't require parents or godparents to take classes beforehand. All you do is sign up. To some, it's known as the McDonald's of Baptism. Abel Salas reports.
Baptism by Fire was produced by Queena Kim
Silverton Saves LA
Writer Laurie Winer tells us about baker Nancy Silverton's latest project: A new pizza restaurant. Winer says it may finally mean truly great pizza has come to Los Angeles.
World 3-D Film Expo
Jeff Josephs talks about The Golden Age of 3-D films. Joseph runs a company called SabuCat, which maintains a huge library of movie trailers. He's also been collecting and preserving prints of 3-D movies, like House of Wax, Dial M For Murder and Robot Monster.
The second World 3-D Film Expo, which starts Friday at the Egyptian Theatre, runs for ten days, features 35 feature films, and is guaranteed to lose money.
Keystone-Mast Collection
KPCC's Steven Cuevas visits UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography, which is the home to tens of thousands of stereoscopic images from around the globe.
Those pictures were snapped by photographers working for the Keystone View Company of Pennsylvania. They document life from the first half of the 20th century... and decades later, they deliver unmatched depth and clarity.
REEL-D
Joshua Greer talks about his first love: 3-D photographs. Greer is the CEO of Real-D, a company that helped filmmakers make animated movie Monster House 3-D. It's an animated feature about little kids who learn why they shouldn't walk on the old man's lawn. Most theatres are showing it in the regular 2-D format, but some show it in 3-D.
Monterey Magic
John talks with the curator of an exhibit from the Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, which is showing at the Laguna Art Museum. The artists rejected grandiose landscapes in favor of moody depictions of the rugged coast.
Reporter's Roundtable
John Rabe talks to Adolfo Guzman Lopez about the future of the LAUSD reform bill... Patricia Nazario looks ahead to the Labor Day Weekend marches... And Tamara Keith talks about legislative foolishness and the emissions bill.