Workshops
Workshops are 50 minute informative and educational sessions given by Convention attendees on a variety of 3D topics, followed by Q&A. Workshops are open to all registered attendees.
Wednesday July 15th
The Grand Canyon In 3D And Its Emergence As An Iconic Tourist Destination
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Presenter: Andrew Lauren
The Grand Canyon is an iconic American natural wonder visited by millions of people each year from around the world with relative ease. Until barely a century ago, it was very difficult to get to by anyone other than the most hardy of explorers initially and then by the most affluent of travelers. This presentation will use stereoscopic images, beginning with those from its earliest explorers, to trace the canyon's development from a blank spot on a map into the iconic tourist destination we know it today.
Learning to see in 3D
1:00 PM - 1:55 PM
Presenter: Victor Lèvy
This workshop explores how altered visual conditions can transform perception and the experience of stereoscopic vision. Participants will be invited to experiment with a visual “defect” in order to better understand how depth perception is constructed and how it can shift or re-emerge. It will include a presentation of the different tools and devices I have used to progressively recover stereoscopic vision, as well as part of the visual acuity in my amblyopic eye. The workshop will conclude with a conversation with Sue Barry (Stereosue), focusing on learning to see in 3D, her experience with strabismus and my own with amblyopia. This dialogue will be recorded shortly before the convention and shared as a preview.
Introduction to Stereo 3D: Capturing and aligning your images using 3DSteroid and Stereo PhotoMaker
2:00 PM - 2:55 PM
Presenter: Dave Comeau
The magic of stereo photography is accessible to more people than ever using a simple mobile phone, DLSR, or special 3D camera. We'll discuss how to use easy, free software to align and process our images to display and share with friends via print or social media.
Making an Indie 3D Movie: Designing Stereoscopic Cinema Without a Studio Budget
3:00 PM - 3:55 PM
Presenter: Dylan Pearce
This workshop offers a practical look at how independent filmmakers can design and produce stereoscopic 3D movies without the resources of a major studio. Drawing from 40 Below and Falling 3D, Lasting Impressions 3D, and the upcoming feature Legends of Conquest, Dylan Pearce will explore how depth, camera, blocking, production design, VFX, virtual production, and post can be planned from the ground up. The session focuses on making 3D feel possible again for indie filmmakers while keeping story and performance at the centre.
AI Based Tools for 3D Video Production
4:00 PM - 4:55 PM
Presenter: John E Hart
A review of some methods for adding narration to a 3D video, for enhancing noisy low light and/or low resolution clips, making slow motion 3D's, and using generative AI programs to make 3D stills and 3D videos. The focus is on what works, and how to avoid AI errors, which are much more difficult to control in 3D. This is an update of a workshop I gave at the 2025 ISU Congress in Waginengen.
Basic Stereo 3D workflow in Davinci Resolve
5:00 PM - 5:55 PM
Presenter: Bob Venezia
Did you know that the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve has a Stereoscopic Workflow?
Perhaps you knew that Blackmagic Design makes a free and powerful video editing suite, but for $300 you can get a lifetime license to the Studio version with extra features.
We‘ll look at this tool and some others I‘m now using for creating 3D video. I‘ll share what I‘ve learned.
Caveat: I work on a Mac, and some tools could be Mac specific, but Resolve is cross-platform.
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Thursday July 16th
VR180 for Beginners
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Presenter: Greg Perez
How to get started photographing in VR180. It will cover cameras, shooting tips, processing and displaying VR180 images.
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3D Doodling with Colored Pencils
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM
Presenter: Jim Olsen
Hands-on! Pencils and instructions furnished, and you can take some home. A pair of dots or lines, one red, the other cyan, viewed with anaglyph glasses, will float over the paper, sink into it, or come through it! Make 3D doodles!
DepthMaker
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Presenter: Barry Rothstein
Masuji Suto's apps for computers and cellphones such as StereoPhoto Maker and 3D Steroid Pro have revolutionized 3D photography and greatly enhanced our ability to produce high quality stereo images. In DepthMaker and DepthMaker Win Masuji strikes again providing very nice 2D to 3D conversions. This workshop will mostly demonstrate DepthMaker Win, but will also apply to the android phone app DepthMaker. And yes, these conversions are suitable for phantograms.
The Story of My Picture
6:00 PM - 6:55 PM
Presenter: George Themelis
This workshop will show a number of 3D pictures and tell the story behind them: How they were taken, any challenges, editing, etc. The focus is on learning how to improve your 3D pictures.
Friday July 17th
Preparing content for spatial displays
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Presenter: David Comeau
We'll explore the latest in 3D display technology, both stereoscopic and multiscopic. We'll discuss how to create content for display on devices such as the Looking Glass Go.
Saturday July 18th
American Paper Stereoviews of the World War, 1914 - 1932
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Presenter: Ralph Reiley
A discussion of the various publishers of World War views in the United States, including Keystone, Underwood, Troutman, PresKo, and Brentanos. I will go over the many sets that were published from 1915 to 1932.
Easy Mini Stereo Cards
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM
Presenter: Jim Olsen
We're here again with a hands-on workshop on mini stereo cards! We have made it less complicated, better, more fun, no-fail! We'll make pockets on cards, slip in chips, and view. All materials provided.
Using AI: Depth Maps and Animation Models
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Presenter: Harold Baize
This workshop will show how to fix issues with depth maps produced by the current 2D to 3D models. I'll describe how I use AI animation models to turn stereo view cards into animations. Then Peter S. will describe his process for converting classic movies.
Sunday July 19th
Apple Spatial photography with an iPhone
9:30 AM - 10:25 AM
Presenter: Gene Mitofsky
Using an iPhone camera set to spatial, it will create a HEIC file for Apple vision, however there are ways to convert it to a SBS for nice stereo. The method will be demonstrated using stills and videos.
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The Grand Canyon In 3D And Its Emergence As An Iconic Tourist Destination
10:30 AM - 11:25 AM
Presenter: Andrew Lauren
The Grand Canyon is an iconic American natural wonder visited by millions of people each year from around the world with relative ease. Until barely a century ago, it was very difficult to get to by anyone other than the most hardy of explorers initially and then by the most affluent of travelers. This presentation will use stereoscopic images, beginning with those from its earliest explorers, to trace the canyon's development from a blank spot on a map into the iconic tourist destination we know it today.
Presenters
I began doing stereoscopic photography in 2014. Since then I have had my work exhibited at the Proud Galleries in London and the Fotoplastikon in Warsaw, Poland. I have published articles in the International Stereoscopic Union's journal "Stereoscopy." I have given presentations at 3d-Con. I regularly give presentations about stereoscopy to residents of a nursing home as a form of therapeutic recreation.
Victor Lèvy is an architect, photographer, and professor of architecture, design, and digital fabrication at the Faculty of La Cambre-Horta (ULB). He discovered stereoscopy through his own recovery from amblyopia, leading him to combine historical research, experimentation, and the collection of stereoscopic cards and stereographs. Inspired by early twentieth-century ophthalmologists’ use of stereoscopes for binocular vision training, he explored stereoscopic devices and photography, progressively regaining stereoscopic vision. This trajectory has led to a stereophotographic practice (VicThor) that questions visual perception.
George Themelis (DrT) discovered stereo photography with a Stereo Realist and joined NSA in 1988. In 1997 he co-founded the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society (OSPS) in Cleveland, Ohio. George enjoys writing Tutorials as the Editor of the OSPS newsletter "Stereogram" and he is also the Editor of ISU's "Stereoscopy." He deals with stereo equipment and supplies for stereo photography at drt3d.com and ebay. He also takes plenty of stereo pictures. His favorite subjects are nature, people, travel. His equipment include Fuji W3, Panasonic 3D1, Panasonic 3D lens, XREAL Beam Pro, and a variety of twin cameras. Some of the techniques he uses: Macro / close-ups, hyperstereos, tele-stereophotography, flash photography.
Dave is a Philadelphia area-based stereographer, hacker, reverse engineer, and futurist. He grew up with a fascination for View-Masters, and rediscovered 3D in 2001 when he realized in a dream that digital stereo video was easily achievable. Dave probes the digital beyond through experimentation in VR/XR, volumetric displays, and photogrammetry.
Dylan Pearce is a Canadian director-producer and co-founder of Northern Gateway Films. His work spans feature films, television movies, and immersive 3D projects released through major platforms and international distributors. His feature 40 Below and Falling 3D earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination and won an Advanced Imaging Society Lumiere Award, and Lasting Impressions 3D played to IMAX 3D audiences across the world. He is currently directing Legends of Conquest 3D, a theatrical family feature combining esports, virtual production, and stereoscopic 3D.
John is a retired professor of Atmospheric Science at CU Boulder. He first got interested in stereo photography and film-making in 1998 when his initial efforts focused on adventure sports like canyoneering, rock climbing, and white-water kayaking. He has worked on sub-microsecond flash photography of bullets and splashes, stereo-microscopy, motion-art of fractals, and time-lapse stereoscopic videos of the Milky Way and violent storms. His 3D films have won first place awards at several Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conventions, the LA3D and New Media film festivals, and many NSA 3D-Con Stereo Theater events. His most recent 3D interests are POV model railroad videography, filming restored full-size steam locomotives in action, maintaining and operating his own garden railroad, and playing around with AI generated images and videos for telling little stories in 3D.
Bob Venezia is an award-winning stereo photographer and videographer whose work has been presented internationally. His time-lapse videos of carnival rides set to music bagged an artistic achievement award at the 2011 NSA, and his twin set of slow motion shorts secured the Paul Wing award at NSA 2025. He is recognized by PSA as a master photographer, but his buddy Bob Bloomberg is a master level 15 so don‘t get overly excited.
Greg Perez has been an avid stereophotographer since he acquired a Stereo Realist camera in 1985.He has been a member of the Puget Sound Stereo Camera Club and the National Stereoscopic Association since 1988. He is currently serving as Vice President of the NSA and President of the Wichita Area Camera Club. He shoots in digital 3D and VR180.
Having started making 3D images since 2003 I've become the "phantogram guy" and 3D addict, having produced thousands of such images and six books of 3D photography.
I am a frequent contributor of Stereo World Articles, many of which are about stereo views of the First World War. I have been collecting war views since the 1980's.
I've loved 3D since childhood. Joining the Cascade club in Oregon, I learned I could make my own 3D! I've been to a number of conventions, and led workshops about drawing, and photos.
Harold Baize started in stereo photography in 1988 while procrastinating writing his doctoral dissertation. He was active in the Oakland Camera Club Stereo Division (now Golden Gate Stereoscopic Society) for many years, served as president of the club and edited the newsletter. He has been awarded Photographic Society of America gold medals and the Kodak Photography Award for Contemporary from the Southern Cross Exhibition 2002. He also explores stereoscopic computer graphics and virtual reality.
Workshop presenter, 3D-com committee member, SSA Exhibition co host, Judge, Chicago Stereo Camera club, Photo West (Arizona) Camera club, ISU, NSA, Photographic Society of America PPSA, ASPA 3D Division Star ratings director.