VSC Meeting, September 2025

Sunday, September 7th at 2:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CEST

We hope you enjoyed a refresh­ing sum­mer break! The VSC is back, and we’re excit­ed to invite you to our first meet­ing of the new sea­son.
We have two out­stand­ing pre­sen­ta­tions lined up:
Wayne Kar­berg’s show explores three cre­ative facets of pho­tog­ra­phy. He’ll begin with infrared light. From there, he’ll move into High Dynam­ic Range (HDR) imag­ing, explain­ing how merg­ing expo­sures expands the cre­ative range of a pho­to­graph. Final­ly, he’ll com­bine both approach­es with stereo imag­ing to pro­duce unex­pect­ed and dra­mat­ic results.
After­wards Jim Met­calfe will take us on a jour­ney through sev­er­al unique macro cam­era rigs he has devel­oped over the years, shar­ing fas­ci­nat­ing details of their design and show­ing sam­ple images from each. He’ll also give us a glimpse into his “tiny stu­dio,” where some of his strik­ing images are cre­at­ed.
This promis­es to be an inspir­ing evening of ideas, tech­niques, and images — a per­fect way to kick off our fall sea­son. We look for­ward to see­ing you there!

3D Trends

Infrared, High Dynamic Range, and Stereo, oh my!

Wayne Kar­berg

This pro­gram explores com­bin­ing three facets of pho­tog­ra­phy.
The first facet, a brief expla­na­tion of infrared light, dig­i­tal equip­ment require­ments, and cap­tures reveal­ing unex­pect­ed tones made vis­i­ble.
The sec­ond face, High Dynam­ic Range (HDR) imag­ing, merg­ing mul­ti­ple cap­tures at dif­fer­ent expo­sures. Why to use this tech­nique, require­ments, an expla­na­tion of its func­tion, and pro­cess­ing will be briefly cov­ered.
The third facet, stereo imag­ing, com­bined with the first two facets! Exam­ples will be shown that unveil the “dra­ma of the unexpected”.

3D Trends

Four Macro Rigs and a Tiny Studio

Jim Met­calfe

Jim Met­calfe out­lines some of the macro cam­era rigs he’s devel­oped over the years, plus some sam­ple images from each. Three of the four cam­eras use a half-sil­vered mir­ror to bring the cam­era lens­es close togeth­er, and two of the cam­eras use Rasp­ber­ry Pi com­put­ers to con­trol the image sen­sors.
He also shares a few images of the tiny stu­dio he uses to con­struct some images.

Meeting Info

At the meet­ing time, click the red but­ton on vsc3d.com. Please use a nick­name cor­re­spond­ing with your sub­scrip­tion so that we can iden­ti­fy you in the wait­ing room. If you should expe­ri­ence prob­lems access­ing the meet­ing page, just send us a short mes­sage to contact@vsc3d.com and we will send you the direct link for the cur­rent meeting.

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