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Bubbles in the ice. Abstract forms. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
ok... this might not look like a big deal to you.. but what you don't see here it what i have to tend with when trying to take a shot like this.... for that.. take a peak below ;)
imagine the scene.. me trying to first blow the bubbles, then quickly grab my camera and try to snap them before the dogs pop them. they go crazy for bubbles! just like little kids like to pop them... it is way funny actually.
and hcs! surely bubbles are cliché!
Ice Bubble #3
Soap bubbles are an incredibly fun subject to photograph, allowing me to play with light, colour and details with an unprecedented amount of creativity. View large! (Press the "L" key to view in Lightbox mode)
Shot with a narrow-beam flashlight, the light source stays right behind the bubble with very little spill-off on the side, giving a “glowing” effect to the still-growing frost fronds. Luck is needed for the bubble to fall in exactly the right place in this narrow beam, with a slight deviating ruining the effect. If the bubble landed off-center, by the time I could adjust the light source the frost would have completely covered the sphere and the beauty would be diminished.
To colour the light, I put on my propeller hat and cut two small squares of polarizing film and put a piece of a clear CD case in between them. The polarizers are arranged in a perpendicular fashion, so that normal light would not be able to pass through. The cheap plastic creates a birefringence effect however, which creates some interesting rainbow colours, and I project these colours by putting this little colorizer in front of my flashlight.
You need to work fast, and the depth of field is incredibly shallow. For each soap bubble I am able to photograph, I may create hundreds. For each one I show online, I have dozens on my computer that aren’t quite good enough. There is a certain amount of luck involved, but it’s worth the effort and time required!
I should also say that very low wind (less than 10km/hr, ideally half that or lower) works best, and temperatures of -10C / 14F or lower seem to work well to get the freezing to take place in a stable way. This is a fun experiment to try this winter, if you get the right conditions!
My main winter focus is snowflakes, and there is still about a month left of snowflake posts through this winter. Be sure to check out the rest of my stream for additional winter macro work, and www.skycrystals.ca/ for the best book written (in my biased opinion) on this type of photography.
Bubbles, Photo+Adventure-Messe, Landschaftspark Duisburg, Duisburg, 2018
Abgesehen von den vielen Fotografen auf der Photo+Adventure hatte auch Kinder ihren Spaß mit den Riesenseifenblasen.
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Apart from the many photographers at the Photo + Adventure, children also had fun with the giant soap bubbles.
You can check the original in the comments and see that this is some very radical "sliding". Although, I must add, embarrassingly easy one. A click of a button is all it took. This iPhone app makes some wonderful bubble refractions, especially if you are working with the right picture. Unfortunately, resolution is ridiculously low...barely suitable even for web. But I still like the effect. Happy Sliders Sunday, everyone!
My neice Leah, who, it turns out, loves bubbles! She just wouldn't stop, so I grabbed my camera! Can you believe Fotolia (the stock photo site) didn't want this? Gits.
Flowing out of the sinking wood
Bubbles of love they do flood
Rising up until they race
Over the lakes greedy face
As the water it does drink
Makes the bubbles slowly sink
Past wet lips, where its treasure
Will give the lake, wild bubbling pleasure
- Reshade 3.2.2
- 4K Resolution DSR
- UE3 Custom Key Binds for
Timestop/Free cam/FOV/HUD
- Cheat Engine table by IDK31
for Separate Free Cam
Game: Alice: Madness Returns
Thousands of air bubbles caught in thick ice when viewed closeup reveal a different world, cold and alien to the one we know.
Bubble Shooter Saga is the latest and greatest of the famous bubble shooter type arcade games. Once you start playing it, you won’t stop until you finish all its 75 levels. The goal of the game is to help the cute, little teddy by collecting items he wants to have. The items are hidden among c...
Bubbles frozen forever in silver slag. The bubbles formed in molten silver slag and left their mark as the slag cooled. Abandoned Jessie Knight silver smelter, Silver City Ghost town, Juab County, Utah.
Another image from my daughter's Clemence Dance show last June. I think the monochrome processing gives it a very dreamy feeling... Hope you like it :-)
Macro bubbles are as much fun as the kind you blow into the wind! This was a fun first attempt at mixing mineral oil, water and a little dish liquid to a glass dish. This one was placed on top of a re-usable bag from Trader Joes to get the color variations.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Muscid Fly [Helina sp.]
DIPTERA > BRACHYCERA > CYCLORRHAPA > SCHIZOPHORA
Calyptratae (Calyptrates) > Muscoidea
Muscidae (Houseflies and Allies) > Phaoniinae > Phaoniini
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There are two theories as to why flies blow bubbles. The first, which is now being dispelled, is that they blow spit-bubbles and then drink the saliva to stay cool or, possibly, to act as a form of mouthwash. The second, and more current understanding, is that they simply do it to get rid of excess liquids thereby concentrating the contents of their stomach. Not only is it fascinating to watch, but when they're blowing bubbles they generally sit still for a few minutes, which of course is a bonus when you're trying to photograph them!
I shot quite a few of these earlier in the winter, and I’m constantly amazed by the variation you can see in a simple bubble. Snowflakes are beautiful natural formations, but I like playing a part in the creation of these things too! :) View large!
The focus was slightly off on this bubble, but I think it’s too good not to showcase here. The depth of field is so incredibly shallow and the constantly-changing subject means that focus stacking is impossible, even for me. With only a tiny slice of focus to choose from and mere seconds to find the proper alignment, the shooting process can be quite frantic.
For this bubble and for many of the others I’ve shot, I use a bubble mixture of:
6 parts water
2 parts dish soap
1 part white corn syrup or glycerine
The corn syrup / glycerine makes the solution a little thicker and more robust, allowing some of the bubbles to stay intact when they impact the ground. These bubbles all fell onto snow, which had a tendency to make them pop immediately. A smoother surface may have worked better, but I liked the out-of-focus background details that snow provided.
This soap bubble also shows some interesting crystal formations. It’s almost as if snowflakes are growing from different points on the bubble’s surface, each beginning from a different nucleation point. Just as snowflakes need something to being the crystal formation, so too does frost growing on this bubble. You can even see signs that each separate crystal is forming on a slightly different angle to the camera! Slight impurities in the bubble mixture likely caused this result, but it’s something to keep in mind next year…. Maybe add something extra to the recipe to create more nucleation points!
experimental abstract - what can I say? it's an experiment, one which i may or may not explore further, let's see what YOU say :)
May today be international bubble day and then tomorrow and then next day and the next, etc. plus infinity and a day. So basically, forever.
Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles and even more bubbles everywhere. Each little, and sometimes not so little, bubble is desperately delicate but its colour is amazing and though it lives for only a short while, its time is spent filling our hearts with colour, joy, happiness and the screams of childrens delight. Most get popped before they can get anywhere, while the odd survivor catches the wind and somehow manages to float happily away...
Note: image taken with a Canon 5D mounted on a Manfrotto 055CB Professional Tripod - subject lit by two Canon 580EX flashes (fired by a Canon Speedlite wireless remote transmitter ST-E2) positioned on either side and bounced off large white boards. Processed in Photoshop CS3.
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