Paul Maggs Photography

Stereoscopic anaglyph format (red/blue-green glasses)

Paul Maggs specialises in aircraft photography. John Wattie explained to him how a moving object generates its own stereo pairs. The background interferes with the effect, but if the background is bland, good stereo pairs are made.

Aircraft seemed the ideal way to do this, as long as a cloudless blue sky was the background.

Paul made the photographs of the jumbo jet, John did the image processing and the theory turned out perfectly.

There were some faint clouds but they vanished on the blue-green picture and became better on the red picture, so they did not interfere. This was an unexpected bonus, although when you think about it, red filters are used to make clouds show up better in black and white photography. The old blue sensitive, orthochromatic film did not show clouds well at all.

(Paul's original photographs were much sharper than can be reproduced on a small computer screen).

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Paul photographs the moon and Pohutu Geyser.