richard.heeks
Beautiful Spangles Bubble
OK, so this is a bit dark. But look past that to the beautiful spangles inside. There's blues and greens and oranges and whites. I don't know why the light does this. I do know it's the sun you're seeing though, and the light becomes more spangly with smaller aperture (f/10 here!).
I use the word 'spangles' to mean the beautiful spots of light that seem to orbit around the bubble. I don't know what they're called, or even if there's a word for them.
This was shot in early morning light - sun low in the sky.
The more I photograph bubbles the more attuned I get to how much of a difference aperture makes. Here, the small aperture of f/10 creates more contrast around the edges, giving more depth cues, more of a 3D look! It helps to make the spangles clear too - they look more like blooms when shot with a larger aperture.
I shot this with my Nikon 50mm f/1.4 af-s. Lovely lens!
P.S. This is a photograph of a soap bubble, not a Photoshop creation. I do little edits on light, but nothing invasive like adding stuff that's not there. The editing here is very small too - just a couple of tiny tweaks. This is a REAL PHOTOGRAPH.
.... Later, in 2015, Donovan Young, a physicist, has written a blog post that theorizes the spots of light in this bubble. The spots are reflected sunlight that bounces around inside the bubble.
whyweseewhatwesee.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/multiple-refle...
Beautiful Spangles Bubble
OK, so this is a bit dark. But look past that to the beautiful spangles inside. There's blues and greens and oranges and whites. I don't know why the light does this. I do know it's the sun you're seeing though, and the light becomes more spangly with smaller aperture (f/10 here!).
I use the word 'spangles' to mean the beautiful spots of light that seem to orbit around the bubble. I don't know what they're called, or even if there's a word for them.
This was shot in early morning light - sun low in the sky.
The more I photograph bubbles the more attuned I get to how much of a difference aperture makes. Here, the small aperture of f/10 creates more contrast around the edges, giving more depth cues, more of a 3D look! It helps to make the spangles clear too - they look more like blooms when shot with a larger aperture.
I shot this with my Nikon 50mm f/1.4 af-s. Lovely lens!
P.S. This is a photograph of a soap bubble, not a Photoshop creation. I do little edits on light, but nothing invasive like adding stuff that's not there. The editing here is very small too - just a couple of tiny tweaks. This is a REAL PHOTOGRAPH.
.... Later, in 2015, Donovan Young, a physicist, has written a blog post that theorizes the spots of light in this bubble. The spots are reflected sunlight that bounces around inside the bubble.
whyweseewhatwesee.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/multiple-refle...