Shirley Ward, FPSA, EPSA
About the Image(s)
Our camera club recently had a workshop on oil/water abstract images. It is a very easy set up to do....place 2 chairs apart, and then make a frame of 1" dowels or plastic pipes, to fit a 9x12 glass baking dish...place it in the frame and fill with at least 1" of water....then drop small amount of clear cooking oil on top of the water....on the floor below place piece of colored paper or other colorful items which will be lit with 2 small flood lights onto the papers....Be sure the lights are far enough away so that they don't show up in the oil/water setup.
To create the bubbles, take a large plastic straw and blow into the water, which will make lots of bubbles...shoot fast as the designs change constantly, and stir the water a bit if more bubbles are needed...
Shoot with a macro setting, wide open, if possible, and place your camera about 2 inches above the areas of bubbles. This worked very nicely with my Panasonic Lumix Point and Shoot camera on the automatic P setting...it resulted in several very sharp images...the final image was put into Elements and given a twisted technique. A border was also added...
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I like the color, patterns and detail. I would prefer to see the center brighter with the light trailing off to the right. Essentially, drawing my eye towards the center.   Posted: 05/02/2020 16:50:20
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