3D Shooting Tips

1. Keep main subject well centered. Lenticular printing crops in the sides.
2. Place main subject 5-10 ft from camera.
3. Always keep the camera horizontal
4. All prints from this camera are in portrait mode (higher more than wider) so compose your picture accordingly.
5. Try to avoid having any object closer than 3 ft from the camera especially at the sides.
6. More depth planes in the picture looks better than less. For instance: “foreground flowers-person-background bush-far trees-hillside” looks better than “person-hillside”.
7. “Trailing” depth is often effective in 3D pictures. Trailing depth objects include fences, railroad tracks, walls etc. that go from the viewer into the horizon.
8. Semi-transparent objects such as smoke, steam, fire or veils look good in 3D.
9. Depth multipliers like mirrors and puddles can often be used effectively.
10. Use action to enhance a 3D picture such as throwing leaves or snow in the air in front of a person’s face.
11. “Busy” scenes look good in 3D. Lots of clutter on a table or twisted branches in brambles are examples of this.
12. In general, just compose scenes with depth or the “Z” axis in mind when using a 3D camera.

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