Beadazzled
Three of a collection of beads of different shapes, materials, and colours. I randomly collected them while looking for a replacement bead for the – once professionally beaded, now DIY – necklace I redid with a new wire at the beginning of this year (and photographed it three times for MMs). initially, I bought the glass bead in front as a replacement for the broken bead but it's about 2 mm/0.078 inches bigger than the original beads, and of a darker colour, and in the end, I decided to use the broken bead so the necklace is now very much in "Wabi-sabi" style ;)
I'm not quite sure what the two bigger beads (1 cm/0.39 inches in diameter) are made of. From the touch, I first thought plastic but from the sound they make when dropped on a hard surface (and I dropped them a lot, or rather: they kept rolling off the black tile I tried to put them on, so in the end, I fixated them with modelling clay), I'd say glass. And the more I dropped them, the more I was/am convinced it's glass. Their surface is frosted, with a "dented" (tiny, tiny, tiny dents) texture. And when light hits them at a certain angle, they display a nice iridescent colour effect which drew me to them in the first place.
No coloured lights this time because the beads have the colours "in them", so to speak. The smaller glass bead is of a blueish-grey, also slightly iridescent colour, with a partly metal-vaporized (I'm not sure about the correct term here) surface, and of course, its facets nicely reflect all the colours of the things around it (and believe me, there were/are many things). I was also a little shocked at how scratched the (new!) faceted bead already was but I guess it was touched by many hands and rolled around many times in the small ceramic bowl at the shop before I bought it, so that explains the scratches.
The two bigger beads are semi-translucent white, and the colours that emerge when, as mentioned above, light hits them at the right angle, are a bright, electric blue with hints of yellow, green, and purple.
Light sources were natural sunlight from the window to the right, natural white light from my LED photo lamp from above (and slightly from the left), and bright white light from my handheld LED flashlight, set on "spot", from the front. The final image is made of 15 focus-stacked Raws combined in Helicon Focus.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
P.S. I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight.
Beadazzled
Three of a collection of beads of different shapes, materials, and colours. I randomly collected them while looking for a replacement bead for the – once professionally beaded, now DIY – necklace I redid with a new wire at the beginning of this year (and photographed it three times for MMs). initially, I bought the glass bead in front as a replacement for the broken bead but it's about 2 mm/0.078 inches bigger than the original beads, and of a darker colour, and in the end, I decided to use the broken bead so the necklace is now very much in "Wabi-sabi" style ;)
I'm not quite sure what the two bigger beads (1 cm/0.39 inches in diameter) are made of. From the touch, I first thought plastic but from the sound they make when dropped on a hard surface (and I dropped them a lot, or rather: they kept rolling off the black tile I tried to put them on, so in the end, I fixated them with modelling clay), I'd say glass. And the more I dropped them, the more I was/am convinced it's glass. Their surface is frosted, with a "dented" (tiny, tiny, tiny dents) texture. And when light hits them at a certain angle, they display a nice iridescent colour effect which drew me to them in the first place.
No coloured lights this time because the beads have the colours "in them", so to speak. The smaller glass bead is of a blueish-grey, also slightly iridescent colour, with a partly metal-vaporized (I'm not sure about the correct term here) surface, and of course, its facets nicely reflect all the colours of the things around it (and believe me, there were/are many things). I was also a little shocked at how scratched the (new!) faceted bead already was but I guess it was touched by many hands and rolled around many times in the small ceramic bowl at the shop before I bought it, so that explains the scratches.
The two bigger beads are semi-translucent white, and the colours that emerge when, as mentioned above, light hits them at the right angle, are a bright, electric blue with hints of yellow, green, and purple.
Light sources were natural sunlight from the window to the right, natural white light from my LED photo lamp from above (and slightly from the left), and bright white light from my handheld LED flashlight, set on "spot", from the front. The final image is made of 15 focus-stacked Raws combined in Helicon Focus.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
P.S. I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight.