Notes on amazing bubble photos
Creative Review and Sony commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to demonstrate Sony's new Alpha 350 D-SLR camera. For his test, Tozer took a magical series of bubble photographs. The images were created entirely in-camera. The CR Blog has now posted a fascinating behind-the-scenes photo essay showing how Tozer made the photos. Link
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oops - looks like it's been boing!boing!'d out of existence or the moment!
I wet my pants over this. Not the photos (the site is down) but the price of the camera. It seems just like yesterday when they were making 10 megapixel available to people in the press for $10,000 USD.
Kinda lametastic to put memory stick support in there. Somebody in Sony sure has marketing balls.
Great shots. Worlds better than that dull Martian sunset.
Hey, that "dull Martian sunset" is my current desktop background (which took the place of the HAL 9000 background, just to show you how cool it is).
That's nice, but I still don't want to buy a Sony product anymore...
Anyone have a mirror?
I just bought myself a Sony Alpha-300 DSLR. I would have bought the A-350, if I weren't a starving student. I'm really happy with my purchase - doubly so because it is compatible with ALL of $1000's worth of Minolta SLR lenses I inherited from my late grandfather.
Eclectro: With regard to memory stick support, if the difference between the 300 and 350 models is as slight as the salesmen make it out to be, it only supports the memory stick format with a compact flash adapter (sold separately, of course).
Interesting comment that does not bode well for this camera's high ISO performance:
“I was trying to get the highest shutter speed we could, with the lowest ASA, so the shots were less grainy,” he says. “When we got some beefier lights we were able to go down to about 200 ASA.”
That's interesting about the old minolta SLR lenses. Does it need an adapter to take them? And what about all the old Canon lenses *I* have.
I suppose something might be machined...
Fricken' sweet as pie... kickass find.!!.. boing boing, have I told you that I loved you, lately? Now THAT'S good art.
Simply incredible find.
From the article: "Interestingly, Tozer found that as further bubbles were made from a particular batch of solution, less colours appeared on the surface. 'The first bubble you make has loads of colour in it, when you make another couple they seem to have less detergent in them, so less colour,' he says. 'The detergent sinks to the bottom of the bubbles, leaving the water behind, so you gradually get paler images.' "
Having studied detergents for some time, this sounded like nonsense to me. Wikipedia suggests that the colour of soap bubbles is related to the thickness of the film; the thinnest films are colourless. Presumably the later bubbles from the mixture are thinner, so less brightly coloured; an individual bubble may also thin at the top, giving paler colours.
I was also reminded of this article on a kitchen chemist's (eventually successful) quest to dye bubbles...
Seriously ? we need a Sony for that ?