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For Macro Mondays' "Bubbles" theme. This is a blue glass pitcher with lots of little bubbles in the glass. The out of focus blobs are highlights from the other side of the pitcher. Lighting is done mostly with an Ikea reading light coming in from the top. Background behind the pitcher was black board. The area covered is probably less than an inch across.
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2nd January 2011
You have no idea how good my intentions were when I got out of bed this morning.
I knew I had to work for a couple of hours around 10am, but then I figured that gave me the day ahead to get out there and capture a work of art that the Royal Photographic Society would be proud of. (Ok, so I like to dream a little, but you’ve got to aim high right?)
What I didn’t count on was the weather. Yeah yeah I know, lame excuse, the weather can be a photographers friend ‘n’ all that, but today can only be described as grey. Not a glimpse of sunshine to allow me to capture the new years smile on peoples faces. Not a drop of rain to form puddles to allow me to capture reflections. No fog to form an eerie mist over the roof tops. No black scary looking storm clouds forming menacingly overhead. Getting the picture? It was just grey.
So having wandered around aimlessly for a while, I came back home and took up residence on my much loved sofa whilst I took stock of my situation and tried to come up with a Plan B, with a little help from a Gin & Tonic. (Slimline tonic of course, as per one of my many resolutions for 2011!)
I was having a fiddle with my camera and accidently fired the shutter whilst putting it down on the table. When I checked the view finder I saw that it had caught part of my glass and that the light had clung to the fizzy bubbles of the tonic.
Quickly, I grabbed my trusty 105mm lens, moved in close to the bottle of tonic, and hey presto, here’s the result. Who says inspiration can’t be found at the bottom of a glass!
A Flickr Friday submission on the topic "Bubbles". Soap bubbles on a lightbox, and physicists will be pleased to see Newton's Rings on the large bubble.
It was my birthday on Sunday... the big three zero. We had a lovely day out, Stewart cooked me scrambled eggs on toast with smoked salmon for brekkie and then we went to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition followed by a late lunch at Boxwood Cafe. We were supposed to finish it all off with a supper of cheese and crackers with a bottle of one of the lovely French champagnes we got in Champagne last year but we were still too full! Instead we had the cheese and bubbles last night... we had a picnic on the living room floor, picnic blanket and everything.
I've managed to drag my birthday out quite well actually... had my party last Saturday, actual birthday this Sunday and an extra birthday dinner and bubbles on Monday :-) What a lucky girl!
A pair of otters playfully swirl and create bubbles in the water, but for a moment decided that I was interesting enough to check out. Photo taken Yellowstone National Park.
Taking photos of foam is great fun....the bubbles keep moving and disappearing.
This was a B&W photo originally. The blue was created with the Tone Curve in Lightroom 4.
For Sliders Sunday and Macro Mondays Theme "Abstract in Macro"
HSS and HMM! :-)
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
Don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine, stay
Each day is Valentine's day
Bubbling up, multiplying
Across the water, floating , flying
Rising, rising, ready to explode
Burst wide open and unload
Disappearing again, sinking down
Into the deep, where bubbles they drown
Have you ever had a bubble
Fly into your eye
Have you ever let a bubble
Sit upon the sky
You really really should
Set a bubble free
Because caging up a bubble
Would be a catastrophe
They'd cry and scream and kick
They'd cause quite a scene
Plus locking up a bubble
Is really very mean
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.
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.
It is amazing what you can see in pond scum. The algae can be seen growing in strands inside these bubbles. best viewed large.
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
I saw a photo competition with the theme of "light", so I've been trying to get better shots of coronas on soap bubbles. This is my first try. I do love the coronas, but I want to get closer yet - want more detail. I might have to be careful I don't burn my eyes in the viewfinder though!
If anyone could explain what is happening in this shot I'd be grateful.
If anyone wants to try this, please please please be CAREFUL OF YOUR EYES. I'm no expert here, but I imagine you could burn your retina by staring at these flares through a viewfinder.