“ OK, the cup was not really being honest ” Stuck indoors has left me scratching around for ideas, I managed to get up to 1/2000 shutter speed using HSS flash so that it wasn't the flash that froze the action, but it is an uninspiring image. What it is though is me embracing that imperfection we all need to do once in a while, being stuck inside seems to have me doing it more than I want to though. But Hey! I can live with that, it is another post for the streak, and you've got to love a streaker
“ Out of this world ” This is a soap bubble, ot at least a part of one, I had never tried this before, and it took a lot of images before I was getting anything I liked, a total of over 400 pictures were taken to reach this one, but I am happy with both the image and the learning of a method needed to achieve this result. I don't know many things softer than a soap bubble, which was how I came to think of this as my picture, the different patterns and colours achieved every time was fascinating to see, every single shot was different, which made it hard to choose just one of them, but this one had a good mix of shapes and colours, and eventually won the cull. I used a macro lens, a softbox for lighting and a mix of washing up liquid, water and glycerine for the bubble mix.
“ The Lady in Red ” I persuaded my wife Tina to let me take a photograph of her for this weeks challenge, I think she looks beautiful, but she is reluctant to have her picture taken. I used a black background and an off camera flash in a 60 cm softbox. There was some editing needed to obtain the result you see here, I did warm the image up just a fraction as well as raising the highlights very slightly, and apply a crop.
