Inadvertantly Discovered How To Photograph Orbs

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

12/24/2012 11:37:26 AM · #1

AKA EVEN TOTAL FAILS CAN BE FUNNY!

Ingredients:

1. Photographer
2. A camera
3. Assistant
4. Bottle of Bubbles

Get Assistant to blow bubbles.
Take OOF images of bubbles (unintentionally of course)
Examine resulting images hoping for amazing pictures of bubbles blowing across the landscape
Discover you have photographed those mysterious alien 'orbs' that people puzzle over on the net periodically.
Idly wonder how many people you can fool if you were that way inclined.

PART 2

Try again to capture amazing pictures of bubbles floating across the landscape.
See cat staring at bubbles and snap one off quickly
Discover you were completely wrong and what you actually got was an alien face eating orb with mysterious black eyes attacking the cat!

Message edited by author 2012-12-24 11:40:12.

EL-ROI

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

12/24/2012 11:47:49 AM · #2

Scary bubbles!

tanguera

Nikon D750

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

12/24/2012 11:57:18 AM · #3

Hahaha

RyanW

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

12/24/2012 01:41:36 PM · #4

amusing.
thanks for the smiles (and good job with the ufos)

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

12/24/2012 02:00:24 PM · #5

one of these days I will actually get the light / distance / focus right and get those amazing shots of bubbles. At the moment the wind blows them too fast, haven't got the right background to show them off and certainly have not got the focus right. It's clearly a learning curve...

BUT

the 'mysterious' orb effect did have me laughing my head off.

FYI these are totally untouched (except cropped and resized for web) those 'eyes' were just a reflection in the bubble. I think of the cat actually.

Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

12/24/2012 03:38:23 PM · #6

they can be real awkward to photograph, i shot these the day m7 70-200 2.8 arrived

//www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157632329271701/

IMG_9174 by gilesbert, on Flickr

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

12/24/2012 11:39:24 PM · #7

Originally posted by Giles_uk:

they can be real awkward to photograph, i shot these the day m7 70-200 2.8 arrived

//www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157632329271701/

IMG_9174 by gilesbert, on Flickr

Those are cute! I think my problem is that I am trying to take photos of the actual bubbles. It would be easier if there was another subject in the photo and then you ignore trying to focus on the actual bubbles. But I had a specific idea in my head of bubbles just floating across the sky and by golly that's what I'll get! .... eventually :)

cowboy221977

Canon EOS-60D

12/24/2012 11:43:52 PM · #8

I really like the one with the cat....even though I am not a cat person (I had a bad experience)

kasaba

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

12/29/2012 04:04:30 AM · #9

Originally posted by cowboy221977:

(I had a bad experience)

... with a cat? a domestic cat? Must have been one hell of a cat to scare a cowboy ;-)!

kasaba

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

12/29/2012 04:06:44 AM · #10

Originally posted by cowboy221977:

I really like the one with the cat....

Me too :-). Its a seriously #$%@ off cat :-). I have a black cat around here (he comes in when it pleases him), with about the same sense of humor as the one in the picture. Never tried blowing bubbles at him ... hmmmm ....