Week 8, and it seems like I'm experimenting with colors again. 

          For this week's photo, I thought of doing something with a St. Patrick's Day theme. However, after two failed attempts at stenciling and pouring green liquid, I decided to scrap the idea altogether and resort to my reserved bank of photo concepts. While I was researching the "water and oil" concept for week 7's photo, I came across bubble photography. Of course the video made this seem like some simple two step process, that is, blow the bubble and make the shot. BUT... I guarantee, anyone who tries this will find it incredibly difficult and even frustrating to some extent.

           After setting up my black cloth backdrop and attaching the flash to my camera, I began blowing the bubbles and taking shots. After 20 plus shots and countless camera settings adjustments for ISO, Aperture, f-stop and shutter speed, I was finally able to see some bubble outlines against the black background. However, the bubbles were moving across my lens-range way too fast and disintegrating even faster! Consequently, I just had to amp the number of bubbles I was blowing and take shots like crazy. After a few rounds of this, I ended up setting the camera to automatic shooting for at least 10 shots in a row. However, the flash couldn't keep up with the shutter speed of the lens....

         Eventually, I figured I just had to take a different path... and so I decided to take the camera off the tripod and adjust a few settings. After intense bubble blowing and concentrated/selective bubble shots, I got a few takes that I could work it for processing/editing. Mind you, this was after about 150+ takes! After layering a few photos, I finally got an image I was in love with:)

         Ah well, it's very rare to get that "perfect shot" in the first go-around.... It's probably why patience is the first skill required of photographers :) Well, enough of my rant, here's my photo for Week 8. It's entitled, "Prometheus" because the chunky bubble formation reminds me of the space-ship that was used in the 2012 Alien Prequel: Prometheus. Also, don't forget to take a look at those hairy little bubbles that are clinging to the mega-ship!

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