More night bubbles

[DanielA]

Here are a few of mine from Deb's dinner meet:





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Daniel

[tommyg]

Very nice!

Did you play with the background to clean it up, or are these straight out of the camera?

[wendellt]

great technique and result

i had trouble shooting a giant bubble so getting these smaller ones right must of been tedius
i like the use of gelled flashes too

[DanielA]

Thank you both very much.

Did you play with the background to clean it up, or are these straight out of the camera?

Nothing I do is "straight from the camera", but I never do too much. I processed the NEFs to crop, bump up the black point a little bit (hides a bit of noise in the BG), boosted the exposure a stop (they looked a bit dim), boosted saturation. There were a few obvious spots in a couple of the backgrounds which were healed. But that was it. I could give more detail if you're interested.

i had trouble shooting a giant bubble so getting these smaller ones right must of been tedius
i like the use of gelled flashes too

These were about 10 to 15cm is size, so they weren't too bad to chase. They had excellent hang-time.
Sorry to burst your bubble , but no gelled flashes were used. One flash, camera mounted, directed forward, no diffuser.
I think the multiple flash hilights are reflections from the front and rear films of the bubble. There was an outside flood light, but I haven't seen any effect from that.
Big V was shooting with an on-camera and remote flash, so it will be interesting to see the difference a side-flash gives.

I have to say the fast-fifty makes some nice stars from the hilights. I was only using f/5... but I guess that is massively stopped down for a f/1.4 lens.

Thanks

Daniel

[zafra52]

Very nice, I like the simplicity and the colours.

[Geoff M]

Good work, I have shot several bubble themes in the past but nothing along the lines of simple 'in the air' type before. May have to give these a go!

[aim54x]

Looks awesome!

[DanielA]

Thank you.

Good work, I have shot several bubble themes in the past but nothing along the lines of simple 'in the air' type before. May have to give these a go!

I wasn't expecting much, but I took a couple of dozen frames and was happily surprised. Using the night sky gave a wonderful black background.
I don't know much about the bubble machine. It was Deb's, running off batteries, pumping out streams of large bubbles for as long as you wanted. It worked really well.

Deb, are you around? Any details on your bubble machine?

Daniel