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A tea candle shot through the bowl of a Ruby Hock. The bowl is 3 1/2 inches so I cropped in on the candle at 1 1/4. The entire frame is about 2 inches. Translucent pretty colors. HMM ;-)
The shining magenta Face on this Anna's Hummingbird is not created by pigments, but by the structure of its feathers. There is a microscopically thin translucent coating on the surface of each wing scale and light reflects off both the front and the back of this layer. This layer also causes refraction (light travels slightly slower through it compared with air). But because the layer is so thin the light waves interfere with each other causing distortion of the colours, albeit pretty distortion. The same principle applies when a microscopically thin layer of oil floats on water, and you get a spectrum of colours. If the layer were just a few millionths of a millimetre thicker, the feathers would appear a different colour, just as the swirling colours of an oil sheen are caused by miniscule differences in the thickness of the oil layer. And if you view from the "wrong" angle, the shining colours disappear and the face just looks dull and dark. Incidentally the word iridescent comes from Iris, who was a Greek Goddess, and the personification of the rainbow. That is why the word iris is used to describe colourful things like eyes and flowers.
Anna's Hummingbird was named after Princess Anna d'Essling the 19th century Duchess of Rivoli, wife of Prince Victor Massena and son of one of Napoleon's Marshalls. It was named by René Lesson, a French naturalist who also had the Pool Frog (Pelophylax lessonae) named after him.
I photographed this male Anna's Hummingbird by the banks of the San Diego river in California, just before we set off on the Baja cruise.
EXPLORE: Front Page, june 25, 2009.
New serie of Hummingbirds.
Using the sun as a strong backlight and two flashes with a reflector as fill light.
The black background is set in an angle in order no to interfere with the back light.
The normal sync speed is 1/250 sec in this case is 1/160 sec with an aperture of F/5.6 and a lens of 70-200mm
Hope you like it!!!!
Just happened to see this fellow while I was waiting to shoot the sunset. Couldn’t stop my curiosity how translucent this damselfly is! Don’t get bored on my back lighting obsession yet.
Tradescantia Nanouk (also known as "Fantasy Venice"). It is a fast-growing plant with colourful striped leaves that can glow when light shines through them, revealing their veins and vibrant colours.
AKA Early forget-me-not, mäkilemmikki (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 100mm F4 Macro / 50 mm extension tube / led panel, 1:1 macro.
For this week's #Macromonday submission for the theme #translucent, I decided to shine a little light on the unassuming lemon slice. I dressed it up a little bit with some oil and water to give it a little "pizzaz" and backlit with my remote speedlight and CTO gel.
Sunlight passing through a petunia.
Macro Mondays: Translucent
The image is just under 3 inches in width.
A small perfume bottle and a string of pearls. The potion of the bottle shown is 3" tall. The pattern in the glass makes it translucent rather than clear. The reflection of the pearls in the cap, was a happy accident.
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I wasn't sure if I have anything translucent for today's theme. So while picking up some stuff at the mall, I went to Diaso and fragrance bottle at SGD 2.18 for photo taking :)
I place the bottle lying down sideways and placed a few LED bulbs behind to create this.
If you like this, have a look at the other post: flic.kr/p/2sq2CJL
Translucent Bloom. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
Light glows thorugh the petals of a spring blossom.
The scale of my usual photograph subjects generally ranges between the whole landscape and something smaller but still larger… than I am. But Patty, the other photographer in the household, has made a specialty of photographing vey small things, often flowers, and often so close that we see details rather than the whole thing. I suppose that this was bound to rub off, and I just realized that I have a series of such photographs on my desktop ready to post.
I made this photograph on one of our periodic forays to a large garden on the San Francisco Peninsula. At first I wasn’t thrilled with the light — we were expecting some lingering fog and soft light, but instead the sun was out. But I found that if I got in really close to some of these flowers that were in just the right light… it was possible to find that “less than all of it” perspective on them.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
I shot this image in an Irish cornfield....I loved its' translucent beauty and the fact that it was blowing in the breeze.
Macro Monday theme today is translucent. This is the base of a small stubby screwdriver. It used to belong to my dad. I keep it with my photographic stuff as it's perfect for tightening the screw of those quick release plates. HMM!