Archive for October 17th, 2016
non compliance
Oil and water don’t mix, in today’s post.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Spending a day at home recently, one set up a little “stage” and improvised a lighting setup on my kitchen counter. The subject I wanted to shoot was “oil and water” so a couple of glass vessels were deployed. The shots in today’s post are actually oil, water, and a couple with some dish detergent mixed into the water.
One or two, like the one above, had some india ink added in as well. Obviously, I was using a macro lens.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Above, it’s just oil and water, with a two light setup (cool and warm) bouncing their beams in and around a little tent of colored paper I erected around the camera, which then diffracted through the glass vessel containing the liquid.
If I was a “proper” photographer, I’d assign the image some self important sounding name like “amygdaloid dissonance number six” or something.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This one is a witch’s brew of ink, detergent, water, and vegetable cooking oil which received a pretty energetic mixing up. I had to let it settle for a bit so that the soapy foam could decay down to the surface.
It’s probably my favorite of the series.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Desirous to not totally “abstract” the shots, a point was made to pop the minimum power flash and bounce it off a piece of white paper to illuminate the foam. All the other light, obviously the “warm” lamp, was coming from below.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Curious as to what a pure detergent foam in water would look like under the macro lens, the shot above was produced. To me it looks a bit like some sort of monstrous spider web, but a lot of things remind me of monstrous spider webs.
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