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Somebody Spiked the Punch
Day 154 of 365
"Somebody Spiked the Punch"
As I mentioned just yesterday, I was not finished with ferrofluid. After taking my own advice and putting on gloves, I had to venture again into the strange world of ferrofluid. What you are looking at here is a small amount of ferrofluid on the underside of a petri dish. By using the underside I am able to keep the dish out of the camera's view. Since you asked about the behavior of ferrofluid (nobody asked any such question), I'll offer a couple of lessons. The closer the fluid is to the magnet, the smaller the spikes and valleys. Therefore, I had to place smaller magnets between the petri dish and magnet. As you hold the dish of fluid above the magnet, it starts to come to life, and that is when the large spikes appear. As for the light, there is a strip box directly overhead......and I mean directly. It is just out of the vision of the lens. I wanted the light to smother the spikes in softness. At the last moment I decided to throw a speedlight on to the white background, just to offer a subtle gradient at the bottom. While the black background version is sexy....I thought this was more interesting. The substance is addictive.........and stains everything!!! Thanks for stopping in!!
#ferrofluid #spikes #macro #canon5dmarkIII #canon100mm #canon580exII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #pocketwizard #liquid
Somebody Spiked the Punch
Day 154 of 365
"Somebody Spiked the Punch"
As I mentioned just yesterday, I was not finished with ferrofluid. After taking my own advice and putting on gloves, I had to venture again into the strange world of ferrofluid. What you are looking at here is a small amount of ferrofluid on the underside of a petri dish. By using the underside I am able to keep the dish out of the camera's view. Since you asked about the behavior of ferrofluid (nobody asked any such question), I'll offer a couple of lessons. The closer the fluid is to the magnet, the smaller the spikes and valleys. Therefore, I had to place smaller magnets between the petri dish and magnet. As you hold the dish of fluid above the magnet, it starts to come to life, and that is when the large spikes appear. As for the light, there is a strip box directly overhead......and I mean directly. It is just out of the vision of the lens. I wanted the light to smother the spikes in softness. At the last moment I decided to throw a speedlight on to the white background, just to offer a subtle gradient at the bottom. While the black background version is sexy....I thought this was more interesting. The substance is addictive.........and stains everything!!! Thanks for stopping in!!
#ferrofluid #spikes #macro #canon5dmarkIII #canon100mm #canon580exII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #pocketwizard #liquid