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Strobist info: Used a single flash from camera right that was pointed at an angle towards the ceiling to bounce down. The flash was about 4 meters from the camera.
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I've been forever blowing Bubbles
And I just adore this image!
I have had an absolute storm with this set... A fish tank full of water and a 6mm tube through which I have been blowing bubbles! One flash, naked and just above the surface at 45 degrees triggered with a pair of RF603s. Mounted the Tamron 90mm on a jessops 2x teleconverter and wound up the aperture as tight as it would go (F90 no less!!!)
I had no Idea how frustratingly hard this would be nor how messy it could get!
I have no idea where the orange 'smoke' appeared from or what it is!!!
Shooting bubbles has really been a good photographic learning experience for me. It has taught me to accept what is presented to me, rather than being too caught up with my pre-envisioned shot. Usually when I'm shooting a subject I have a very clear picture in my head of what I'm trying to achieve. And I sometimes even get close to the shot that I wanted, more or less.
However with bubbles I rarely get the shot that I was trying for. In this case there was water dripping off the roof from snow melt. When the bubbles would drift through the drips sometimes they would pop, and sometimes the drips would go right through, either way I figured it might be a cool capture. Well, needless to say I didn't get anything even remotely cool related to water drops and bubbles. But as soon as this one came off the wand I thought, "holy crap, those colors!" so I was just smashing the shutter button, hoping to get a shot before it exploded.
I wish I understood the dynamics of bubble colors better, I'd like to get more like this, because this was pretty much just dumb luck. This was the only bubble that day with colors like this.
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Model: Brittany Buscemi
My favorite shot from this shoot!
I had the kids all day today. Just after lunch I was feeling lethargic, so I decided to go out back. I saw a little magic bubble tube and decided that would wake me up. We started with small bubbles and then I had each of the boys take turns blowing bubbles.
I realized fairly quickly why people invented the bubble blowing machines as I started to get light headed. So we got creative. I started by cutting a snapple bottle in half and dipping the smooth (smaller) opening in the solution. With little effort I could blow larger bubbles and with more effort I could swing my arm and make some bubbles.
That led me to look for larger apertures… I spotted an old clorox household wipes container. That aperture is between 4 and 5 inches. So I lopped off the back and tried it. Like magic, we were making bubbles larger than the boys heads. They loved it.
The reflections and colors on those large spheres were awesome, so I ran inside and grabbed my camera. Aperture priority with ISO at 200 and we caught some sweet images.
Notice the small mosquito just left of the bubble in this shot. Incredible that it is in focus (mostly)
Assignment: PCA71 – Transformation
WIT:
I decided to go with soap bubbles for this assignment. To me, they represent many types of transformation. They can turn a grown man into a little boy or a sad face into a happy one. There seems to be something uniquely fun within the simplicity of blowing bubbles whether you try to catch them, try to pop them, try to take pictures of them, or just watch them.
They also represent transformation in the shapes they take on and the reflections within them. Always different from the real world as if they are a world unto themselves.
Not much post processing to speak of. A crop and a slight bit of sharpening is all.
I just simply snap the bubbles, never espect the best becouse it's hard to focus the floating bubbles even using an automatic mode. Lucky I got one, just nice. Out of twenty snaps.
Flowing water, bubbles, and golden stags combined are the kinds of things catch the eye of a photographer while walking around Hermann, Missouri.
I babysat 6 of my cousins on Friday and it was such a nice day, we blew bubbles outside after decorating sugar cookies and planting seeds!!
I was blowing bubbles and I took this pic because I thought it would be cool to have a pic with bubbles in it!
This is master bubble maker Sebastian enjoying some of his own product. Without his outstanding help, none of my recent bubble shots would have been possible.