FLASHBACK: Diego Luna and Ben Mendelsohn arrive in LA for 'Rogue One' Premiere 2016

 

Diego Luna holding an action figure of himself at LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA.
December 11, 2016.

This was the week of the 'Star Wars: Rogue One' premiere. The film wasn't out yet, but some toys had been released. So I brought my Cassian Andor figure, and Diego was kind enough to pose with it.

This is one of those less than perfect 3-D effects, because the toy is the real subject in focus, but it doesn't line up properly.

Remember, these 3-D photos were not taken with a 3-D camera, but are created by using successive frames taken a fraction of a second apart. So not everything always lines up properly in the frame at the same time. Sometimes there can be what is known as "binocular rivalry" with certain elements of the photo, such as with the action figure in the above pic. I find that when I first cross my eyes, I can see Diego's face in 3-D just fine, but when I'm focused on his face, the toy is split into two transparent elements in my field of vision. But when I tilt my head slightly to the left, the double image converges and I can see the toy in clear focus and 3-D.

Some people find binocular rivalry disturbing, annoying, or worse, headache inducing, so I apologize if that's anyone's experience here. I for one don't mind it, because I feel like this method of extracting a 3-D illusion from 2-D pics is kind of a miracle, so I don't fret too much when it's imperfect.

 

 Ben Mendelsohn arrived on a later flight that same day, and was kind enough to pose for me as well.