Wet spectacle shot setup

Lord Vetinari

Typical set up I use for doing refraction shots on a wet spectacle lens. I'm shooting around 3:1 FF magnification. I just slide the camera forward on the lens to focus and take a sequence of shots for stacking. The flower is in front of a curved background wedged between the table mat and a wine cooler. I use spectacles simply because they have a nice hydrophobic coating.
Note the refracted images appear in front (ie nearer to the camera) of the droplet focus point.

Brian V.

David_S85

What a simple and well thought out setup, Brian. Thanks for posting the informative tutorial. I'm sure it isn't as easy as just that, but the results are superb!

DeeBug

Hi Brian,i will second what David says,thanks again bud!

Cheers Davy

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments David and Davy - :
Brian v.