{"id":564,"date":"2009-07-31T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T03:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-07-31T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T03:33:04","slug":"tornado-bubble-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Bubble #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_565\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><em><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Tornado_Bubble_10_200x1911.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Noddy and the Tornado Bubble\" width=\"200\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Tornado_Bubble_10_200x1911.jpg 200w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Tornado_Bubble_10_200x1911-150x143.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/em><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Noddy and the Tornado Bubble<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> <\/em>In the last loop, I included a shot of my friend Tom Noddy with one of his marvelous bubbles. That was shot with the TL-120 and some bounce flash, but when I tried to figure out the exposure, I made some gross errors. So why did the pictures come out okay? I apparently made a whole bunch more errors in making my settings. Yes, I&#8217;m an idiot. But I&#8217;m an extremely lucky idiot.<\/p>\n<p>This year I did some test shots before inviting Tom over again. There&#8217;s black velvet hung behind, because the DOF is extremely shallow. I think we had sharpness between about 28 and 32 inches. I had several flash units triggered by slaves, mostly bouncing off the ceiling here. (I&#8217;ve been reading the strobist blog a lot lately, and trying to learn more about the use of flash.)<\/p>\n<p>To create this, Tom blows a bubble and catches it on the wand. He blows a second bubble below it, filled with smoke, so the smaller smoke bubble is attached and hanging below the clear bubble. Tom sticks a <em><strong>wet<\/strong><\/em> straw through the wall of the top bubble and blows gently, so the air is swirling inside. Then he break the membrane between the 2 bubbles, so now the smoke is inside the bubble with the swirling air, and the smoke is still somewhat concentrated. Finally, he opens a\u00a0 hole in top of the bubble, so the bubble deflates like a balloon, forcing out the swirling smoke. I shot a bunch of these. Every time you shoot one, you watch what it continues to do, and you think, &#8220;Dang! It got even better after I fired!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like the detail of the swirling smoke, and the saturated colors on the top of the bubble.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last loop, I included a shot of my friend Tom Noddy with one of his marvelous bubbles. That was shot with the TL-120 and some bounce flash, but when I tried to figure out the exposure, I made some gross errors. So why did the pictures come out okay? I apparently made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,76],"tags":[23,88,87,36,89,58,86,84,85,19,31],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a22","category-folioa","tag-bob-venezia","tag-bounce-flash","tag-bubble-magic","tag-flash","tag-peanut-slave","tag-provia-400x","tag-soap-bubble","tag-strobe","tag-strobist","tag-tl-120","tag-tom-noddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}