Day 205 - Week of Lights - Lemonade

My weekend started today as I've got the day off tomorrow.  But I would have loved this long weekend more if I knew I could just chill and do as I pleased.  Well, life isn't so simple, nor was it meant to be.  So, I have to run errands and get a lot of important stuff done tomorrow, including an oil change and getting winter tires put on.  At least I know that driving will be better when the snow hits.

To commemorate the early start to the weekend, I decided to drink lemonade out of my stemware!  What an idea!  No, I'm kidding!  I just needed another subject for the light experiment for this evening, and I thought that trying to catch the rainbow reflections would be nice.  But the light from the iPod wasn't bright enough to do that.  But I got close to what I wanted, so I gave up after about 10 shots.  Again, I shot these images with the lights off.

In the first image, the colour you see in the background is created by the streetlights reflecting on the wall; and the junk I had on my table, behind the subject, helped create the soft patterns.

Both shots were taken with the 90 mm lens with the glass placed on top of my iPod screen with the light coming from the Lights app.

f/6.3, 30s, ISO 400, Aperture Priority, AWB

f/6.3, 1/6s, ISO 400, Aperture Priority, AWB

I think I like both the shots!  The bottom one looks quite pretty actually.

Day 201 - Week of Lights - Floating Marble

Electric coloured floating marbles!  If you're interested in finding out how I got the marbles to float, check out my Tutorials page.  Also, do check back my tutorials from time to time as I add more photography adventures to it.

Have fun floating! 

Day 197 - Macro Week - Marbles

These shots were lit by a lamp placed directly underneath the glass table on which I placed the marbles.  I used a sheet of parchment paper underneath the glass tabletop to cut down the reflections a little.  And if you're wondering how I got the marbles to stay put, guess what!  I used some glue of course!  

90 mm, f/5.0, 1/6s, ISO 200, Manual Mode, Custom WB

90 mm, f/5.0, 1/4s, ISO 200, Manual Mode, Custom WB