Hi Stewart, great video with some very useful information and some amazing shots. I perform with bubbles and can give you a couple of pointers..... 1 - when you put your bubble juice into the bottom of the cup and or your lens cap.... make sure the edges are wet. It'll help your initial bubbles not to pop when they get to the dry edges. 2 - Also make your straw wet most of the way up. It'll help not to pop the bubble as the bubble grows and 'climbs' up the straw. Instead of using the bottom of a cup, or a cap, you can make a circle out of very thin (black) wire. Make the circle in the middle of the wire and bring the ends round and twist together so it's like a handle. This handle you can then clamp in a stand. Make sure you wet the wire circle and a bit of the handle. You'll have a few options available to you then. - You can use the circle like a bubble wand and have a soap film (or disc) . With this in the vertical position you'll get a flat disc with some awesome bands of colour. The various colours show how thick the film is. - With the circle in the horizontal position, and a soap film in it, you can blow a bubble dome on the top part and it'll look like a half planet. - If you blow a bubble dome as described above, you can also blow a dome (it'll be upside down) on the underside of the wire circle too. Get the two domes the same size and you'll have, almost, a perfect spherical bubble. ...A complete bubble planet :-) I hope the above info is of use to you, and anyone else reading this that is interested in bubble photography. Please feel free to get in touch if you wish. Thanks again for a superb video :-) Kind regards - Damian Jay from the Believe-A-Bubble show
Brillant, Stewart. I like the clear explanations from beginning (how to get the liquid) until the end (final picture). That helped a lot, thanks from Germany.
Thanks for the tips! I used them and finally got a gorgeous macro image! I wish I could show you! Thanks again! ( oh, and I can tell you don't do a lot of cooking as you discovered that 3 cups will not fit into a pint! : )
Im glad you found the video useful. Your very right I dont do much cooking lol. If you like you can send me a message with your photo to my facebook account facebook.com/sgimagesiw
Nice video...May I ask if you own a light stand for that Godox strobe and, if so, if it could be used at 90° to avoid holding the diffuser while shooting?
@@StewartGibbsPhotography Thanks for the answer. I'll try it myself as soon as possible following your tips! Already tried in the past but never got good lighting results...now I know it was because of the too small diffuser I user. I'd never thought you need one this big!
Yeah...not getting the marble effect and I have a real hard time getting one huge bubble. On the flip side, I get completely different shots with color gels.
If you had a bigger soft box and put it farther away you wouldn’t get the hot spot on the top with the dramatic fall off on the sides due to the inverse square law
You're making a big mistake opening a RAW image in 8 bits, and then applying levels on top. That kills the subtlety of your colors, adds posterization. Always edit in 16 bits, until you export and print.
Simple answer is I don't have a wired trigger, I usually use the timer on the camera. You could use a boom arm for the flash but I found the slight differences in the placement of the light gives different effects in the images.
Ensure that your large light source is as close as possible because that's where the colours will be reflected from. If it is large enough and powerful enough it should overpower any other reflection
@@StewartGibbsPhotography I have same Godox box and flash. No matter how I lower the light, my image is always blue. I'll send a pix to your Facebook page. Thanks for any input. Does color of dish soap matter. I've tried green and orange.
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Hi Stewart, great video with some very useful information and some amazing shots.
I perform with bubbles and can give you a couple of pointers.....
1 - when you put your bubble juice into the bottom of the cup and or your lens cap.... make sure the edges are wet. It'll help your initial bubbles not to pop when they get to the dry edges.
2 - Also make your straw wet most of the way up. It'll help not to pop the bubble as the bubble grows and 'climbs' up the straw.
Instead of using the bottom of a cup, or a cap, you can make a circle out of very thin (black) wire. Make the circle in the middle of the wire and bring the ends round and twist together so it's like a handle.
This handle you can then clamp in a stand. Make sure you wet the wire circle and a bit of the handle.
You'll have a few options available to you then.
- You can use the circle like a bubble wand and have a soap film (or disc) . With this in the vertical position you'll get a flat disc with some awesome bands of colour. The various colours show how thick the film is.
- With the circle in the horizontal position, and a soap film in it, you can blow a bubble dome on the top part and it'll look like a half planet.
- If you blow a bubble dome as described above, you can also blow a dome (it'll be upside down) on the underside of the wire circle too. Get the two domes the same size and you'll have, almost, a perfect spherical bubble. ...A complete bubble planet :-)
I hope the above info is of use to you, and anyone else reading this that is interested in bubble photography.
Please feel free to get in touch if you wish.
Thanks again for a superb video :-)
Kind regards - Damian Jay from the Believe-A-Bubble show
Hi Damian, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the tips, I am sure they will come in very useful for those who want to give this a go.
Have school hols, wet windy days, water, washing up liquid and straws. The rest I'll get round. Will give this a try. Thanks
Brillant, Stewart. I like the clear explanations from beginning (how to get the liquid) until the end (final picture). That helped a lot, thanks from Germany.
Thanks Stewart, great for the lockdown :)
Great video, and I think I will have my cup of tea. Thank you very much for this tutorial.
So well detailed, unpretentious. Thank you.
Thank you
Love the cup of tea man!🤣👍
Great vid, can you show us how you did the 2.jpg, the one with the mirroring, Thanks
I was able to finally get a few. Thanks for the tips.
Nicely done - another idea to try on a day in, many thanks Stewart.
Thanks for the tips! I used them and finally got a gorgeous macro image! I wish I could show you! Thanks again! ( oh, and I can tell you don't do a lot of cooking as you discovered that 3 cups will not fit into a pint! : )
Im glad you found the video useful. Your very right I dont do much cooking lol. If you like you can send me a message with your photo to my facebook account facebook.com/sgimagesiw
On my 100 macro lens, what should I have my focusing distance range set (on the lens)? Thank you.
It would depend entirely on your distance from the subject.
Great tutorial. Thanks.
Great project thanks
I don’t think you made enough bubble mixture
i don't have the same marble effect on the bubbles.. they are plain :(
Nice video...May I ask if you own a light stand for that Godox strobe and, if so, if it could be used at 90° to avoid holding the diffuser while shooting?
I do have light stands but no boom arm which would have been ideal to hold it in the right place.
@@StewartGibbsPhotography Thanks for the answer. I'll try it myself as soon as possible following your tips! Already tried in the past but never got good lighting results...now I know it was because of the too small diffuser I user. I'd never thought you need one this big!
@@antistiolabeo8950 the closer your light source is the bigger your light becomes
Yeah...not getting the marble effect and I have a real hard time getting one huge bubble. On the flip side, I get completely different shots with color gels.
Can you start off with a cup of coffee? Or does it have to be tea?
You won't get the shot without tea, coffee causes blurry pictures.
Wine can also cause very blurry photos too 😉😜
Something to do when you have to stay home for two weeks.
If you had a bigger soft box and put it farther away you wouldn’t get the hot spot on the top with the dramatic fall off on the sides due to the inverse square law
You're making a big mistake opening a RAW image in 8 bits, and then applying levels on top. That kills the subtlety of your colors, adds posterization. Always edit in 16 bits, until you export and print.
Great video tutorial!!! Thanks gonna do this on this rainy Sunday!!!! Thanks! Hopefully you didn’t quit the channel would love to see more.
I've been really busy so videos had been set aside for a while but I do have one planned for this week
@@StewartGibbsPhotography Thanks! I can't find any glycerin in any local shops, I'll have to order online. Thanks again!
i like the idea, but whynot use a wired trigger? set the flash on a stand ? but hay, ive not
had a go yet
Simple answer is I don't have a wired trigger, I usually use the timer on the camera. You could use a boom arm for the flash but I found the slight differences in the placement of the light gives different effects in the images.
Very helpful! Well done Stewart!
My soap bubbles are reflecting every single thing in the house. How can I fix that? Even at night with the lights off
Ensure that your large light source is as close as possible because that's where the colours will be reflected from. If it is large enough and powerful enough it should overpower any other reflection
Where I should focus ??? Not able to get focus so fast as bubble gets destroyed
Stand something in the place where you need to get focus, focus on that then switch to manual focus to maintain it.
Thanks a lot
Could you use kids bubbles and not need glycerin?
You could but the glycerin helps to hold the bubble together and give you more time to get the shots
@@StewartGibbsPhotography Do you know if there any substitutes for glycerine you could use like syrup, icing sugar etc?
@@robsingfield9977 I haven't tried anything else to be honest but glycerin is ready available in the baking section of any main supermarket.
@@StewartGibbsPhotography thanks for the reply, I actually managed to pick up a bottle from Tescos
Waoooo
hey, great video.... I tried, but, I have any color on my bubble, just the surface, why ? What can I do to have these colours ? Thank you ;)
Try getting your light source much closer to make it larger, this should make a huge difference
Yes it did, amazing colors now, thank you !@@StewartGibbsPhotography
Awesome, well done
@@StewartGibbsPhotography I have same Godox box and flash. No matter how I lower the light, my image is always blue. I'll send a pix to your Facebook page. Thanks for any input. Does color of dish soap matter. I've tried green and orange.
@@deadwood1887 What is your white balance set at?
Can I take this type of shot with a Phone and an external macro lens attached to it ?
Yes, the trick to this image is not in your gear. Most smartphones now offer manual settings to control the shot.
@@StewartGibbsPhotography Thank you so much Sir.
İphone xs though
Are you kidding me?