UNIT 1 - MOVEMENT - AO1 - Bubbles! - A Insight onto Richard Heek's fantastic Photos

So today I've started work on my first topic in movement and that's right you've guessed it its Bubbles!

How on earth does this have anything to do with movement?

well, its not about the movement of the bubble from Point A to B its about its actual physical movement. its visually interesting to look at with our eyes, however using a camera I can capture movement that our eyes cannot, like with water droplets or balloons being exploded.

I found a photographer who as well has experimented with bubble photography here are some examples of what he has done.

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How was it done?

For Richard to be able to capture the movement of the bubble he would have to have a fast shutter speed, accompanied by a high aperture, to capture the reflections in the bubble. Not only that, he would either need a sunny day or a high ISO to compensate the shutter speed and aperture. the last thing Richard has done to create these images is to aim the camera so that the background trees so that the bubbles reflections can be made out, if he had shot it facing the sun, the reflections would be concealed by the shining bright light being emitted.

Heres are My results, inspired by Richard's work:

So for all of these shots I had my camera on 'Manual', so I could control how the shot would actually turn out compared if I were to use 'Auto' I kept the settings as follows for all.

So, I had an ISO of 800, an F / 7.1 to capture the depth and reflections and a shutter speed of 1/4000 so I could capture every ripple of the balloons. the only thing I regret not doing was shooting in RAW as there would have been much more detail and clarity involved. I suspect Richard's work above was most likely shot in RAW, hopefully the next time I plan to take these kind of photos I shall endeavour to shoot in said RAW.

Whats Next?

Well. I feel as if I have only just scrapped the surface of this interesting art form, as I look more and more into Richards work I feel that I could later experiment with taking macro shots of bubbles like this one:

Or I could go and experiment with Bubble film photography, in which you take macro photos of the stuff in film, where I can illustrate to you some of the things our eyes cannot see. Heres my final example from Richard of the 'film photography'