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A saturday afternoon, a guy was making giant soap bubbles in a square near the Beaubourg museum (Paris, France). Kids were running everywhere, trying to catch them. A good place to make candid shots.
A wire frame is dipped in bubble solution and placed in front of a speaker. At certain frequencies, the soap film oscillates in symmetrical patterns called normal modes.
These images were made by reflecting light off the soap film through a large lens and onto the wall. They are a combination of square and circular soap film frames.
This is a very similar idea as the Chladni plates.
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One of two soap films from last night and a different effect from my previous ones. Usually I go for the colourful patterns which form quite quickly. This one is after most of the soap becomes discoloured and drops to the bottom of the ring, just before it bursts. I have coloured it in Photoshop from the original grey otherwise it is exactly as seen.
I used a mixture of washing up liquid and water.
Sony A100 with Cosina 100mm macro lens; 1/400 sec at F/7.1 (ISO 200), light from an office lamp (no flash)
Soap and water mixture in an 18mm ring (a 'bubble wand'). A crop of a tiny area showing some detail.
ISO 100, f9, 1/125 sec exposure, artificial light (no flash)
This macro abstract composition is of a mass of soap bubbles floating on water backlit with a photo on my iPad
Good thing Hadley stocks up on things like Dawn soap. I struggled with this one! The tip about using corn syrup to make your bubbles stay longer was key.
Coming back to Flickr is good for me. Doing crazy things like this takes my mind off scary stuff. 46/365
Some experiments using liquid soap, water - and some honey for the first time - which seems to produce a different effect to my previous efforts. This is a crop of an area within an 18mm ring ('bubble wand'). I have blackened out the ugly and distracting plastic surround at the top, leaving the soap film completely untouched.
Sony A100 with Cosina 100mm macro lens. 1/1000 sec at F/10 (ISO 200)
Lighting by a combination of the office angle-poise lamp I usually use, plus my external flash off to one side - mainly to give a faster shutter speed and smaller aperture in a bid to achieve a greater depth of field (it doesn't make a lot of difference - the liquid varies in thickness so much).
Bubbles and hedges have a mutual emnity that goes back thousands of years.
This shot was a happy accident this morning. A brick background does not work well as a backdrop, but I get what I'm given here.
I've been practicing blowing bubbles inside bubbles, hence that little bubble that's survived inside. I have seen some extraordinary things this morning, bubble wise, but I haven't yet been able to photograph them. Maybe.................
Jacksonville, IL
It looks shabby and maybe even a little forbidding from the outside (especially at night!), but Soap Co. is a really great coffee house with good food and a nice vibe. It just happens to be in a building that I guess is slowly being rehabbed...?
First attempt at taking pictures of soap file. Learned a lot. Looking forward to next time... and maybe a macro lens.
Maybe I'll go for the Pine Tar ultra-manly woodsy scent for today.
We're Here finding our soap for the day.