This is where it all started

Well, like the title says, this forum is where I took my first few steps into the world of DSLR and dived into the deep end and began exploring the beauty of this art. I made many great friends here and learnt a lot from many extraordinarily helpful and knowledgeable members. Heck I didn't even know what an f/stop was when I started

Often my inquisitive mind pushed me to the limits and into a world of trials and errors with various subjects and aspects of photography and days of smoke trials and water droplets and bubble experimentation followed.

As I revisit again and explore aspects of photography that I used to do while here I remember a few members wishing to try some of the stuff I used to get into, at the time I hadn't mastered fully the techniques and details to the point that I could jolt down descriptive methods to follow. I used to randomly just try and in between a series of shots get a few that were worth processing. Heck even today I still haven't mastered fully some of the techniques and my quest continues, but I am at the stage that I can certainly put down in writing a few pointers for people to begin experimenting and skip some of the most tedious stages one goes through when trying something new, such as what camera settings to have, angles, lighting etc, AF or MF, etc.

At present I have been experimenting again with bubbles, in various ways, including capturing them bursting. I cannot put up the images here as they were taken with a different kit so I will put the flickr set link here, which I hope its ok with the mods so that members can see what I am trying to explain visually. these are the first reasonably successful batch of bubbles that I felt that I finally nailed and then I can take it from here with some more alterations in technique. I will be able to jolt down the processes that brought me up to here.

I have a second batch that I have just worked on yesterday and soon I process them I will be writing a brief description on them.

I hope that this is not too boring and I haven't just started a thread that interest from the members is totally nil in this for which I do apologise. In which case please let me know and I will stop here, or even ask the mods to delete the thread.

Many thanks

Amin

Very nice shots, Amin. Clever.

I would love to read a description as to how it was done.

These are simply stunning - waaaaaaaaay out of my league

I don't think "boring" is a term which could ever be used with your work Amin.

I second that Ted.

It's good to see you back Amin, and to see some more of your 'experiments'.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you everyone for the warm greetings.
I have now uploaded a breakdown of description for the bubbles.
The description involves also a simpler way to do bubbles, well, in a way its half bubbles but its something that I used to do here and they were all done with Pentax gear. They are not floating ones but if someone wants to have a go at the floating and bursting ones and finds them very frustrating then they can try on the other versions that I have explained and they can still be burst and in my view they do look pretty good too. I have one image that resembles an egg cup that was taken like that. It requires much less effort and less frustrating trials.

The description is in the flickr page,
If you have any problems or need any more clarifications or help just drop me a line here and I will try to address them. I do lurk around here you know

Amin I really think your new ones are better than these though, Like I said the reflection in them makes it special.
I believe it's called a birth-eye view that kind of distortion.

Thank you very much Stefan. Really appreciate it.

I hope the brief description and the tutorial I put up there will help anyone wanting to take a stab at the bubble photography.

Glad to see you're still "popping" in to see us.

Thse are amazing. Not at all how I expected a bubble burst to look.

Thanks Mark
Its always nice to drop by and see old friends.

You are right, I also had a totally different idea of how the bubble burst. But I have been told that mixing different amounts and adding different ingredients also show different burst patterns . Someone just told me that on the flickr comment so I am quite keen on experimenting it.

Got to try to clear my shed now, as I noticed its possible to burst some bubbles and get still some reasonable good images captured indoors .

Thanks again