Dish Soap Bubbles - Red Vs Blue

We have been shooting an interesting subject that you can try at home - Dish soap bubbles - So we thought we would share a little how-to to get the creative juices flowing!

 

Watch the guide on youtube here - youtu.be/dXIpyTTsHLA

 

We have been experimenting with dish soap bubbles since the early days of the Adaptalux Studio (one of the first shots Sam ever took with the early prototypes). They make for some very cool shots with the correct lighting.

 

The space-like shots are achieved by shining light through a bottle of dish soap or hand soap. This is really easy to set up and have a go at in your own kitchen!

 

Shaking the bottle creates little bubbles in the viscous fluid and lighting them from behind or the side can show some amazing colours. The colour can get even more interesting when the fluid is colourless and coloured lights are introduced instead.

 

This shot was captured using a reversed 24mm lens with and extension tube. It's very close and can be difficult to focus with this set up, but you can get equally amazing shots with less magnification too. Here we used an amber light from the back, and a blue light from the side to create some separation between the bubbles in the foreground and the rest of the solution in the background.

 

If you want to give it a go, we have a more detailed guide over on our blog too - adaptalux.com/macro-photography-tutorial-dish-soap-bubbles/

 

Let us know in the comments if you are going to give this a try, and make sure to tag us when you post your results!

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