Bending_Light_II

This is by far my most elaborate and dangerous shot I have ever taken. Walmart had mini black holes on sale, buy 5 get 1 free, so I got 6. Then, I used two vertical mirrors facing each other and two colored flashlights. The black holes were carefully placed to bend the light beams. Three were placed at t he bottom to achieve the beam compression towards the bottom of the picture. Good thing I kept uploading the imagers to the cloud because at the end I got a bit less careful, the black holes coalesced and swallowed my Nikon. I barely escaped to tell the story.

 

The less likely explanation: this is from inside an elevator at Binghamton University :) Shots pop up at unexpected places. I want to think that this makes my portfolio more diverse rather than imbalanced.

 

I should add that this is not an obvious shot when you are in the elevator. It took some finesse to find the right angle and camera settings, and then some corrections in postpro.

 

Also, fun aside, math in, these are hyperbolas created by the cone of light intersecting the walls. Brushed aluminum of the walls gives the beams

an interesting texture.

Done