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A crystal ball (contact juggler's ball) inside a crystal rose bowl. Well I finally got my D300s back from the Nikon repair shop. And even better, I also bought a D750. Takes a little getting use to. but love the image quality and low noise level at high ISO. Lots of learning ahead of me.
Sorry I haven't been checking out your posts for the past couple of weeks. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Macro Monday - X
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My photoshoot with Crystal was explosive.
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Building In Hotel Rooms, No.3: Some sort of crystal gremlin, because fuck yeah transparent purple and aqua
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Another cropping of this image of the Irish tattooed lady ,
Crystal Waters
Rockabilly Revival
Brisbane
First test of my new Crystal Ball - it's so tacky, and just great to play with - you've gotta get one! :)
Crystal Springs Preserve is in Zephyrhills, FL. It was once open to the public to visit but has had entry restricted to groups and booked events for some time in order to preserve the spring and grounds. In addition to the namesake springs group, the preserve features an enjoyable boardwalk and views of the Hillsborough River.
Just something about a fiery orange freezing soap bubble that I have found appealing this winter, and why not combine crystal with crystal?
This is created using a large fluorite crystal specimen that I purchased for experiments like this. The freezing bubble was placed in an opening around the fluorite, and lit from behind with a filtered LED flashlight to give off an orange glow. If that was the only light I used here, we wouldn’t have anything in the foreground illuminated; there is a second LED light off to the left that is adding all of the foreground light to the image.
The lighting angles need to be carefully adjusted. The main light behind the bubble is sent through a sheet magnifier / Fresnel lens which helps keep it tight and narrow, refocused just on the bubble itself with very little spill-off to the surroundings. The white light from the left could be broader, so long as it didn’t hot the bubble significantly. It did slightly, you can see that in the upper left where the bubble and fluorite mix, but this was difficult to contain in a very dynamic environment. Remember that these bubbles freeze solid in 10 seconds or less sometimes!
This is a focus stacked image, which would largely be impossible for a freezing bubble image since the crystal structure grows so rapidly. The second frame, however, was for the more static foreground. I manually combined the two images together so that there was no confusion around the changing crystals in the bubble. It’s tough to do focus stacks with dynamic subjects, but I’ve done them on occasion – once with a bee in flight! In every case they require fully manual attention in editing.
Shot on the pre-production Lumix S1 I had for a few weeks, it was a joy to shoot with and the results all so crisp. Since there are no extension tubes for the L-mount as of yet, I adapted one of my Canon EF lenses to shoot this. A larger scale than my MP-E 65mm lens would allow for, this was done with the Meyer Optik Trioplan 100. Ironically the lens is known for its “soap bubble bokeh” when shooting wide open, but it’s a tack sharp lens when stopped down. I’ve always found this remarkable, since the original optical formula was devised back in 1916. Of course this is a newer version with the latest optical coatings (from the now bankrupt netSE that was using the Meyer Optik name), but I find it fun to think that the fundamentals of photography from a century ago still play into our images today.
On par for sharpness with my 1DX mark II, probably better if I had to pixel peep, and I haven’t even had the ability to dig through any RAW file taken with this camera yet. Even with a lot of extremes in terms of brightness, everything fell within exactly the right dynamic range here. I can talk gear all day, but I also want to remind folks that this is a very temporary sculpture, a fleeting subject that will never be the same twice in any moment in time. That is the nature of this kind of photography and the reason why I stay passionate about sharing things like this.
If you didn’t pick up my bubble recipe from previous posts, it is:
6 parts water, 2 parts dish soap, 1 part white corn syrup. All blown through a plastic drinking straw and placed where needed!
A macro test of the ice crystals of the frost.
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Behind Crystal Shower Falls in Dorrigo National Park, part of the Waterfall Way. This involved about a 3km walk through the rainforest. On the way out the clouds and drizzle set in and it became eerie and dark as we walked back to the car even though it was only 2pm
Crystals on grass with bokeh. View large please. Tried with DSLR, too, but Pentax took the better shot.
My Peach Faced, Lovebird Cutie-Pie, left my shoulder & fly up to my dining room's chandelier! Besides looking so cute I really liked the golden light & mood, so I took a few shots! Hope you like it too =)
This is a frozen puddle in the woods. You can an idea of scale by looking at the leaves in the water. The white fern like objects around the frozen puddle are all ice crystals!
This subway was used by first class passengers, and connected the former Crystal Palace High Level railway station (closed 1954) with the Crystal Palace, on this site after the 1851 Great Exhibition until it burnt down in 1936.
The subway runs under Crystal Palace Parade (the A212).
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