I made this photo by waving a WHITE LED strip up and over a soft-ball-sized soap bubble during a four-second time exposure. There are 26 LED lights in the strip.
Again, the LED lights are white, and it's the soap-sphere that acts like a prism to extract all these colors from that white light.
I got the "recipe" for making these bubbles from a post on the FB group "The Maine Photography Page" by Megan Lowell, who has some beautiful pictures AND videos of the crystalline structures that form on the surface of such bubbles when they're exposed to very cold (12° F. or less).
It was too windy outside in the 7° air to keep my bubbles from breaking the other night, but while practicing making bubbles in the warmth of my kitchen I noticed the reflection in a bubble of one of my kitchen lights had transformed into a multi-color spectacle, so I thought I'd see what bubbles would do to a line of LEDs, and here's one of the results. Background is black velvet; bubble is blown onto a glass vase. Canon T7i, f20, 4sec, ISO 100. This one bubble lasted well over 20 minutes! And was a well-behaved subject.
Megan OK'd my request to put her recipe here:
1 cup warm water
2 Tbsp sugar
3 Tbsp dish soap [Chip used "Ivory" brand]
3 Tbsp corn syrup
Stir mixture until sugar is dissolved.
Use a straw to blow a bubble onto a frozen surface.
This may take a few tries as the bubbles are delicate and pop easily.
Bubbles generally start to freeze at 12° but freeze much better when the temps drop to the single digits or below.
[C7 3611] Alt Tags: Canon Rebel T7i EOS 800D
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