{"id":10711,"date":"2026-04-10T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10711"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:50:30","slug":"experimenting-with-marbles-and-laser-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10711","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with marbles and laser pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like to experiment. Unless I try different subjects and techniques I would get bored with doing the same old thing time after time. This experiment is with a bunch of marbles and 3 colours of laser pointers. It didn’t work well but not every experiment does – that’s the whole point of experimenting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few results from this session, starting with a boring photo of the marbles illuminated by a white LED panel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The collection of marbles simply illuminated by white light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This next photo is a composite of 6 photos illuminated by the red laser, 3 illuminated by the green laser, and 5 illuminated by the blue-violet laser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A composite from 14 separate photos of the marbles creating a red-green-blue coloured effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not a brilliant result but interesting. I also tried illuminating a single marble with the different laser pointers. This is the result from 3 blue, 4 red and 5 green images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A single marble illuminated by 3 coloured lasters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This I found more interesting. You may think I have ‘lost my marbles’ but I can assure you that they are all present and correct…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to experiment. Unless I try different subjects and techniques I would get bored with doing the same old thing time after time. This experiment is with a bunch of marbles and 3 colours of laser pointers. It didn’t work well but not every experiment does – that’s the whole point of experimenting! Here … Continue reading “Experimenting with marbles and laser pointers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,144,3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effects","category-painting-with-light","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}