Helen 74
Psychedelia
I've had a very frustrating couple of hours again today! I'm thinking I'm just no good at this photography lark as every idea I have just lately doesn't work.
Anyway, I have uploaded 3 of my attempts of soapy water. I had been reading how to do it from an old DSLR Photography mag and a Flickr group, but I just could not get it right. I had the extension tubes on my kit lens. You are supposed to get the camera on a parallel plane to the soap and then shine the light at 90 degrees. I found that all I got when I positioned my camera directly above the soap film was the black background I was using, so I ended up handholding and shooting at an angle across the soapy film. This meant that focussing was extremely difficult and I needed to raise the ISO in order to get a fast enough shutter speed, which meant the images were noisy. Just when I felt I may have the focus right, the film would pop! Aargh!
Has anyone else done this and got better results? How did you do it? All help gratefully received!
Psychedelia
I've had a very frustrating couple of hours again today! I'm thinking I'm just no good at this photography lark as every idea I have just lately doesn't work.
Anyway, I have uploaded 3 of my attempts of soapy water. I had been reading how to do it from an old DSLR Photography mag and a Flickr group, but I just could not get it right. I had the extension tubes on my kit lens. You are supposed to get the camera on a parallel plane to the soap and then shine the light at 90 degrees. I found that all I got when I positioned my camera directly above the soap film was the black background I was using, so I ended up handholding and shooting at an angle across the soapy film. This meant that focussing was extremely difficult and I needed to raise the ISO in order to get a fast enough shutter speed, which meant the images were noisy. Just when I felt I may have the focus right, the film would pop! Aargh!
Has anyone else done this and got better results? How did you do it? All help gratefully received!