Bubble Sunset

Real sunset on 25 December 2001 and the soap bubble was made by the

kids new toys they received on Christmas day.

Gerry you did an excellent job ! Your description, how you did it, would be welcomed. Regards from Austria and all best for New Year.

Gudrun

This is great job and great result.

Raoul

Good job! I wonder how did you gave that black background.

Great idea, excellent execution. Very well done.

A very cool, fun image!

I found myself looking for a reflection of the camera or photographer in the bubble. I give it 10's. I assume no digital manipulation was done or you would have indicated that. If you had told us the reflections were added with a computer and the background was made black, I would give it a lower rating. Nice work.

i don't know how the hell you did this, but you really did a bang-up job of it.

It's beautiful!

Great job! You use a Christmas ornament to capture reflection for this?

Interesting photo. Care to share how you managed to capture this?

 

Thank you all for the wonderful ratings and comments. I got the idea from a friend of mine and here is what I have done. This is nothing but a double exposure using a digital camera and Photoshop.

 

The first photo was a soap bubble with the following setting used:

 

Exposure time 1/100 s

F-number 2.2

Max. aperture value 1.6

Metering mode Spot

Focal length 50 mm Nikon F1.8 Fixed Lens

 

The second photo of the sunset:

 

Exposure time 1/2 s

F-number 32

Exposure program Aperture priority

Max. aperture value 4

Metering mode Spot

Focal length 280 mm

 

I then cropped the sunset and placed it over the soap bubble in Photoshop using layers and a transparency setting of around 50%. That was all and took me five minutes to apply this idea.

 

Kind regards

Gerry

 

Great picture and the way you did it - simple yet effective!

Beautiful colors and contrast. Great Picture.

The technique turns out to be rather simple, yet the results are very effective. Good job.

At first I was getting 'worried' it was a filter, but I'm really glad to see how you did it. Really creative and effective. Nice work.