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Did I mention that soap bubbles and wind are the ennemy of the photographer who is trying to focus the lens correctly?
Called this virgin soap since it's just saponified oils with goat's milk powder added :) My poor ass was stuck stirring this by hand. Don't do EVER!
Ingredients: Olive oil, coconut oil, Shea butter, Sweet almond oil, goat's milk powder, Avocado oil, castor oil
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 a small area within an 18mm ring ('bubble wand') and a very similar shot is in the Comments. 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).
Take a chunk of Ivory soap the size shown on the left and microwave for 15-30 seconds. You'll get the blob of foam shown on the right.
I'm sure I'll find a practical use; in the meantime, it's just cool to do.
And, no, I haven't tried Lava soap.
An explanation of how it works is at youtu.be/z1hzatoE1tg
Sunlight is a brand of household soap originally produced by the British company Lever Brothers in 1884. It was the world's first packaged, branded laundry soap. Designed for washing clothes and general household use, the success of the product led to the name for the company's village for its workers, Port Sunlight. The soap formula was invented by a Bolton chemist named William Hough Watson, who also became an early business partner. Watson's process created a new soap, using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil rather than tallow (animal fats). William Lever and his brother James Darcy Lever invested in Watson's soap invention and its initial success came from offering bars of cut, wrapped, and branded soap in his father's grocery shop. Prior to this, commercially made soap was bought in long bars, an early labour-saving device for the housewife.
Soap Bubble nebula. This was just an imaging experiment with limited data from my front yard. It's actually the first time I've gathered data myself in a year, and I was just testing equipment. I was going to just do the Crescent, but then I figured I'd see if I could find the Soap Bubble, which is in the upper right corner. "Go big or go home".
Anyway, it's only about 2 hours of hydrogen alpha data so it's really noisy, and only lightly processed in Pixinsight. But you can clearly see the soap bubble nebula there.
Process was just DBE, MLT, HT, ACDNR, Curves. I didn't bother with much else as I need way more data, but as a proof of concept I like it.
The first time I used it, I thought it was some kind of tap and, when nothing happened immediately, I took my hand away only to have it squirt soap into the sink.
Since it's so gloomy and dull outside, I decided to stay in, and do some macro work.
This is inspired by an article in this months 'Practical Photography' magazine - it's the surface of a soap bubble, showing the colours and droplets moving across the surface.
One of the new goat milk soaps I'm working on. I just cut this bar, so its still a bit soft, but it turned out just like I wanted. The colors are all natural - cocoa powder, mint (grown and dried by me), and dill. I'm calling this one Terrarium & it's scented with cedarwood, juniper, frankincense, cypress, and sweet marjoram.
I will have a ton of soaps ready in 4 weeks or so!
A very beautiful little soap I made with my good friend Tido.
Coconut oil 25 %
Palm oil 25%
Castor oil 5 %
Canola oil 20 %
Olive oil 15 %
Shea Butter 10 %
Scented with "Mayan Gold" (my absolute fav. scent so far)
Added an idea of buttermilk after trace.
Stamped with customizable letter stamps from Tchibo (didn't work *too* well as you can see)