Fond Memories

Hello Friends,

Last week I spent a little time looking through my earliest experiements with phantograms. I first learned about them in 2004 from Steve Hughes at a National Stereoscopic Association convention in Portland, Oregon, where Steve conducted a workshop on how to make them.

I started with "tabletop" phantograms of a broad assortment of household items, flowers, food, and in this case framed photographs. The people in these photos are my in-laws, Owen and Fern Martin. Owen was a radiologist in Seattle and Fern a housewife tasked with raising their eight children. My wife Betsy was the third child, and first girl.

I took these shots with a 4 megapixel Canon PowerShot G3, a very nice digital camera way back then. I'd printed a grid onto a large sheet of white paper, which I used for phantogram processing, and used a home-made slide bar made from sliding door aluminum tracks to line up my left-eye and right-eye shots.

Regards,

Barry Rothstein

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