Beauty is Truth
5BGP4635
The subject is a small bouncy ball. Seize it as it flies through the air to find beauty:
Ask the poet Keats, who said that "what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
He might also have said that what the hand seizes as a ball must be truth, but he didn't, because he was a poet and preferred loafing about under trees with a bottle of laudanum and a notebook to playing cricket, but it would have been equally true.
-- Douglas Adams, in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, chapter 19
It was shot for entry into Macro Monday's "Defining Beauty" challenge.
Lens
SMC PENTAX-FA Macro 100mm F2.8
Lighting
One Pentax AF540FGZ is the wireless master, on the camera.
Another one, acting as the wireless slave positioned behind the subject, firing through a McDonalds Happy Meal toy periscope.
Yes, there were simpler ways to light the scene, but this was fun.
See the first comment for an image of the setup.
Beauty is Truth
5BGP4635
The subject is a small bouncy ball. Seize it as it flies through the air to find beauty:
Ask the poet Keats, who said that "what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
He might also have said that what the hand seizes as a ball must be truth, but he didn't, because he was a poet and preferred loafing about under trees with a bottle of laudanum and a notebook to playing cricket, but it would have been equally true.
-- Douglas Adams, in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, chapter 19
It was shot for entry into Macro Monday's "Defining Beauty" challenge.
Lens
SMC PENTAX-FA Macro 100mm F2.8
Lighting
One Pentax AF540FGZ is the wireless master, on the camera.
Another one, acting as the wireless slave positioned behind the subject, firing through a McDonalds Happy Meal toy periscope.
Yes, there were simpler ways to light the scene, but this was fun.
See the first comment for an image of the setup.