WEST VANCOUVER photographer David Choo shows the newest

46 - Wednesday, November 29 , 1989 —- North Shore News

5 photo Mike Waketield

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Customers amazed
at 3-D photographs

CUSTCMERS HAVE been tempted to walk into the new
3-D portraits that have become available at David Choo

Studios in West Vancouver.

At the very feast, they’ll see if
an inquisitive finger will sink into
the apparent depths of the picture,
or turn the snapshot sideways to
check its width.

“One lady told me she felt as if
she belonged in the picture and
wanted to walk in,” says David
Choo, a West Vancouver
photographer who recently began
to make 3-D photos as part of his
bag of tricks which includes special
effects with double exposure and
restoration of antique photos to
modern clarity.

Three-dimensional imagery has
fascinated people for many years,
but it was only recently and after a
lot of experimentation that success
wasachieved.

The camera that does it is sur-
prisingly small, but creates the il-
lusion of depth with four ienses, in
the same way that a person does
with his own two eyes.

Much of the skill rests with the
photographer, who, rather then
focusing, works with three dif-
ferent exposure settings.

“You have to know where to
put your subject,”’ explains Choo.

Usually someone faced with
photographing a group of people
with mountains in the backgorund
and an artistically bent tree branch
in the foreground would have to
cheose what would be clear and
consign the rest to a blur.

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By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

“With 3-D you can have your
subject and several layers of
background objects in focus. For
that reason, outdoor portraits can
be very effective,’’ says Choo.

The remainder of the skill in
producing these arresting pictures
rests with the devetopers and the
processing, which takes place in
just one place in North America —
a Nevada laboratory.

There, computerized printers
optically slice each negative (with
the four images created by each
lens) into tiny strips less than 1/
1,000°° wide.

The strips are then realigned to
form the surface of the
photograph which produces the
3-D effect from any angle of
observation.

“Te’?s not the same as a
hologram, which can only be ap-
preciated from a certain angle,’’
Choo points out.

This effect, once possible only
by wearing funny glasses in a
theatre, can now be made part of a
couple’s wedding portrait package.

Choo recently photographed the
wedding of a member of the Hell’s
Angels who chose io have a 3-D
portrait taken of his best friends
and himself on their Harley
Davidsons.

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