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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on July 25, 2012, 08:30:04 pm

Title: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: wolfnowl on July 25, 2012, 08:30:04 pm

Some great bubble work here...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/07/enormous-bubbles-photographed-by-bjoern-ewers/

Mike.

Title: Re: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: francois on July 26, 2012, 02:53:11 am

Thanks Mike,
Those are wonderful shots!

Title: Re: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: wolfnowl on July 26, 2012, 06:29:08 pm

You're most welcome!

Title: Re: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: NancyP on July 26, 2012, 07:04:58 pm

Thanks! The thisiscollosal site is quite interesting, as well.

Title: Re: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: bill t. on July 27, 2012, 01:22:16 am

Thanks for pointing that out!  If you look around hard enough, there are still photographs to be made that are both novel and compelling.

But I think those bubbles are blown way out of proportion!   :)

Here's a cute little bubble (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081113.html) a few bazillion miles across!  Yeah, needs some post work.

And let's not forget the roughly 936,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mile wide bubble right out there in the back yard!

That's 936 trillion billion.  A trillion billion is officially called either a "sextillion" or a "trilliard."  There are about one sextillion grains of sand on all the beaches of the world combined.  Or to put it into real-life terms, it would take 3.744 trilliard tanks of gas to cross the universe at non-warp speeds in my Toyota Tacoma, assuming I drove around the wormholes.  And there are a least a trilliard different ways to pass the time during printing marathons.

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Post by: kers on July 27, 2012, 03:44:06 am

beautiful site and bubbles ; thanks!

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Post by: Justan on July 27, 2012, 11:31:11 am

Any idea what substance was used for making these? It would be fun to try and duplicate the results. The colors as well as the forms are just awesome!

Bill, a bubble nebula? Woa, that’s nearly a prototype for a Dyson sphere.

Title: Re: Enormous Bubbles Photographed by Bjoern Ewers
Post by: bill t. on July 27, 2012, 01:32:42 pm

I worked on a 300FPS bubble commercial back in the 70's.  On film, what a camera THAT was.  The amount of film needed to just get up and down from speed cost the same as a days wage for a rooky camera assistant.

We had a grand master bubble maker on the job.  I remember that he was obsessive about the cleanliness of the bubble solution.  When he arrived on the set he laughed at us scornfully for trying to make big bubbles with filthy, particle-ridden tap water.  It had to be distilled, and covered at all times when not in use, and not allowed to get hot.

I see a lot of formulas on Google.  A few of them specify both distilled waster and glycerin along with dish washing detergent, those must be good ones.

And look at this guy (http://theoriens.com/huge-soap-bubbles/)!  The bubbles I'm talking about are over on the left.