Soap Bubble Photography | Photography Projects to do at Home | Stewart Gibbs 

Hi Stewart, great video with some very useful information and some amazing shots. I perform with bubbles and can give you a couple of pointers..... 1 - when you put your bubble juice into the bottom of the cup and or your lens cap.... make sure the edges are wet. It'll help your initial bubbles not to pop when they get to the dry edges. 2 - Also make your straw wet most of the way up. It'll help not to pop the bubble as the bubble grows and 'climbs' up the straw. Instead of using the bottom of a cup, or a cap, you can make a circle out of very thin (black) wire. Make the circle in the middle of the wire and bring the ends round and twist together so it's like a handle. This handle you can then clamp in a stand. Make sure you wet the wire circle and a bit of the handle. You'll have a few options available to you then. - You can use the circle like a bubble wand and have a soap film (or disc) . With this in the vertical position you'll get a flat disc with some awesome bands of colour. The various colours show how thick the film is. - With the circle in the horizontal position, and a soap film in it, you can blow a bubble dome on the top part and it'll look like a half planet. - If you blow a bubble dome as described above, you can also blow a dome (it'll be upside down) on the underside of the wire circle too. Get the two domes the same size and you'll have, almost, a perfect spherical bubble. ...A complete bubble planet :-) I hope the above info is of use to you, and anyone else reading this that is interested in bubble photography. Please feel free to get in touch if you wish. Thanks again for a superb video :-) Kind regards - Damian Jay from the Believe-A-Bubble show

Brillant, Stewart. I like the clear explanations from beginning (how to get the liquid) until the end (final picture). That helped a lot, thanks from Germany.

Nicely done - another idea to try on a day in, many thanks Stewart.

Great video, and I think I will have my cup of tea. Thank you very much for this tutorial.

I was able to finally get a few. Thanks for the tips.

Have school hols, wet windy days, water, washing up liquid and straws. The rest I'll get round. Will give this a try. Thanks

Very helpful! Well done Stewart!

Thanks Stewart, great for the lockdown :)

Great tutorial. Thanks.

Love the cup of tea man!🤣👍

Great project thanks

So well detailed, unpretentious. Thank you.

Thanks for the tips! I used them and finally got a gorgeous macro image! I wish I could show you! Thanks again! ( oh, and I can tell you don't do a lot of cooking as you discovered that 3 cups will not fit into a pint! : )

Thanks a lot

Waoooo

Great vid, can you show us how you did the 2.jpg, the one with the mirroring, Thanks

Something to do when you have to stay home for two weeks.

Great video tutorial!!! Thanks gonna do this on this rainy Sunday!!!! Thanks! Hopefully you didn’t quit the channel would love to see more.

On my 100 macro lens, what should I have my focusing distance range set (on the lens)? Thank you.

I don’t think you made enough bubble mixture

Yeah...not getting the marble effect and I have a real hard time getting one huge bubble. On the flip side, I get completely different shots with color gels.

i don't have the same marble effect on the bubbles.. they are plain :(

Nice video...May I ask if you own a light stand for that Godox strobe and, if so, if it could be used at 90° to avoid holding the diffuser while shooting?

If you had a bigger soft box and put it farther away you wouldn’t get the hot spot on the top with the dramatic fall off on the sides due to the inverse square law

You're making a big mistake opening a RAW image in 8 bits, and then applying levels on top. That kills the subtlety of your colors, adds posterization. Always edit in 16 bits, until you export and print.

Can you start off with a cup of coffee? Or does it have to be tea?

My soap bubbles are reflecting every single thing in the house. How can I fix that? Even at night with the lights off

i like the idea, but whynot use a wired trigger? set the flash on a stand ? but hay, ive not had a go yet

Where I should focus ??? Not able to get focus so fast as bubble gets destroyed

İphone xs though

hey, great video.... I tried, but, I have any color on my bubble, just the surface, why ? What can I do to have these colours ? Thank you ;)

Can I take this type of shot with a Phone and an external macro lens attached to it ?

Could you use kids bubbles and not need glycerin?

Are you kidding me?