I’m a bit of a fun photo nerd - or so my family say (actually lots of others do too!). And I mean FUN photography, not the proper posed and elegant stuff. Two kinds. 3D photos and 360 degree stuff. 3D photography has been around for many years; far longer than conventional photography. Stereoscopic photos started in the 1850’s and two side-by-side images were looked at with a special viewer giving a 3D image. These viewers were used during the Second World War to decipher the reality of particular landscapes and to plan appropriate strategies. Many of these two image stereo slides are around today and the UK expert on ‘Stereoscopy’ (as it’s called) is the Astrophysicist and Queen Guitarist, Brian May. People of my vintage grew up enjoying stereo images via the ‘Sawyers ‘View -Master’ viewer with its circular reels. This, originally educational device, eventually became a popular Disney children’s toy.. I’m a fun photo hobbyist and will, occasionally, produce side-by-side stereo images and View-Master reels for wedding events.. Using the same source of camera images, I can produce the, less effective, anaglyph photos you look at via coloured glasses. Using a special 360 degree camera, I’ll also take ‘all-the-way-round’ photos of wedding tables and groups. I envisage my talk to be supported by screen images with links to real examples so people can look at the images via smartphones and a range of viewers I bring along. I’ll provide a link so these can be seen online. I will also bring some cardboard ‘anaglyph’ glasses. If it can be arranged, I’ll take 3D and 360 degree photos of the group (at an earlier session) and provide access for people to view. These different types of photography are being used more and more to promote products and services and I hope to provide an interesting and enjoyable background to these methodologies.
Views: 228 | Enquiries: 0I am a retired management skills trainer and event speaker; my company developed and ran senior management programmes for large IT companies in UK.
Over the last ten years, or so, I have been a wedding toastmaster, MC and celebrant - and performed MC work at corporate functions.
On a less serious side (although I never took my career seriously), I’ve written one business book ‘The Two Minute Message’ which puts the ‘elevator pitch myth ( and truth) in a sensible perspective. Not exactly Jeffrey Archer levels of sales but dribbles here and there - and I’ve done may business workshops on this, and other topics.
I tell folks I’m a freelance cartoonist and having had one ‘toon in ‘Private Eye’ and twenty or so in ‘The Oldie’ over the years, I can put up a reasonable case to defend that claim. I’m a very average magician but it gives me fun ( as my wife often points out in a rather patronising manner).
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