{"id":2949,"date":"2012-11-25T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2012-11-25T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:00:51","slug":"camera-club-workshop-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"Camera club workshop: Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I organised another camera club workshop, this time on the theme of macro, close-up and still life. One of the subjects I wanted to try was photographing bubbles:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2950\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/camera-club-workshop-bubbles\/e12_6892w1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2950\" title=\"E12_6892w1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6892w1.jpg\" alt=\"bubble image 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6892w1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6892w1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were 5 different set-ups that members brought along. I used a black background on my home-made close-up table. I started off with some still life that I wasn&#8217;t happy with (how do you make a piece of wood &#8216;interesting&#8217;?) Lighting was by 2 old manual flashguns to either side.<\/p>\n<p>The above photo was one of the first I took of the bubbles. Looking at the camera&#8217;s LCD display I saw the technique has potential. The most difficult thing to do was get the bubbles in the right place, both the plane of focus and the location within the image.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2952\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/camera-club-workshop-bubbles\/e12_6894w1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2952\" title=\"E12_6894w1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6894w1.jpg\" alt=\"more bubbles\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6894w1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6894w1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found that getting more bubbles into the image helps give a better image.<\/p>\n<p>And concentrating on a single large bubble I found to be a good option as well:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2953\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/camera-club-workshop-bubbles\/e12_6906w1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2953\" title=\"E12_6906w1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6906w1.jpg\" alt=\"a bigger bubble\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6906w1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/E12_6906w1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But with this image, using some reflectors spoilt the image. Interestingly, I wasn&#8217;t using a green light, perhaps this is refraction causing the colours to split.<\/p>\n<p>I think the idea has possibilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I organised another camera club workshop, this time on the theme of macro, close-up and still life. One of the subjects I wanted to try was photographing bubbles: There were 5 different set-ups that members brought along. I used a black background on my home-made close-up table. I started off with some still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camera club workshop: Bubbles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,19,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-club","category-close-up","category-nearscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}