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Published: 2008-06-21 22:38:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 921; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 15
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Description I have been trying to capture the beauty of soap bubbles, for about 5 years now. Every time I try to take a soap bubble photo, it comes out different. Mostly, this is due to the fact that I have an absolute zero budget: as with most of my photos, all of which you see here, were made DIY, with stuff readily found around the house (other than the camera and lens).

For the light, I used a single clamp light, with a piece of tissue paper, as a simple softbox. I positioned the light so it was as close to the bubble as possible, and directly above the field of view of my lens. The soap/water mixture was 1 part soap, to 10 parts water.

I ended up using a wire-coat-hanger, mended into the shape of a circle; to provide a flat soap plane.

The camera I used was my 8mpxl Canon 350d. The lens was my Sigma 105mm F2.8 macro. ISO was between 800-1600(max). Aperture was F8-11.
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Comments: 7

CaptainElsa [2015-02-25 03:26:53 +0000 UTC]

awesome!

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SaphoPhotographics [2011-07-06 01:46:28 +0000 UTC]

love your work going to try some of these today, hope they turn out as cool as yours

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ZmrazenyVlk [2010-04-22 05:15:46 +0000 UTC]

This is superbly awesome!!

I didn't know you could take a picture of the swirly things in soap bubbles!

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Dagas [2008-06-23 08:10:53 +0000 UTC]

Congrats, it's realy eye-catching. ;]

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knold In reply to Dagas [2008-06-27 02:20:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank YOu!

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Daniel1014 [2008-06-22 13:10:16 +0000 UTC]

very nice!
some of those shapes remind me of ghosts... psychedelic ghost in this case

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knold In reply to Daniel1014 [2008-06-27 02:20:31 +0000 UTC]

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