Refraction reversal

Lord Vetinari

Couple of shots of a flower refracted by gas bubbles in sheet ice.
Both shots focus stacked either by hand or using zerene stacker. An interesting phase reversal on the normal dewdrop refractions.

Brian V.

DeVil

This is too much

Bravo

micknewton

Very nice, Brian. Now, how'd you do it?

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments DeVil and Mick

Mick It was just a thinnish ice sheet off the top of water in a bucket propped up at one end over the flower.
The hard bit is trying not to get flash glare off the surface of the ice.
Brian V.

micknewton

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Thanks for the comments DeVil and Mick

Mick It was just a thinnish ice sheet off the top of water in a bucket propped up at one end over the flower.
The hard bit is trying not to get flash glare off the surface of the ice.
Brian V.

You make it sound easy. I wouldn't even have thought to look in the ice for something to shoot in the first place.

rhermans

Magnificent shots and Idea, another one to put down and try out.

Thanks Brian

ggeorge11

Just beautiful, So many ideas, and not enough time to try all of these ideas!

GOLDENORFE

great idea , worked well!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks again for the comments- appreciated

Phil - asked a lens expert about the optics of this and apparently this type of air lens does form a virtual image of the subject the right way up and behind the lens whereas the more normal water lens forms a real image upside down in front of the dewdrop. As they pointed out you can see the image position when you are focus stacking.

Brian V.

Debashis_A_ghosh

Beautiful series Brian.

Lord Vetinari

Debashis_A_ghosh wrote: »

Beautiful series Brian.

Thanks
Brian v.