Optical Illusions » Soap bubble pictures

Bubble Beach Penguin

david — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:51:22 +0000

Here’s another picture to add to our category of soap bubble imagery. For details about how I photograph the bubbles, see entries in the soap bubble category. I hadn’t noticed before that there are some great movies of bubbles on Youtube, such as this model of Jupiter’s turbulence, or this movie of a bubble bursting. [...]

Soap Sheets

david — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:49:37 +0000

Here’s a new item for our category of soap bubble pictures. The movie shows a science-centre-style demo, not of a bubble, but of a soap sheet. It’s a way of showing patterns like the ones that appear on bubbles, but streaming down a huge sheet. The quality of the [...]

Soap Bubble Series

david — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:45:26 +0000

Here’s another in our series of soap bubble pictures. Visit the category to see the others, or this post to see how I photograph the bubbles. Or for more images and another technique for taking pictures of soap films, visit Michael Much’s site.

Dawn Bubble

david — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:44:05 +0000

Here’s an image of a dawn bubble to celebrate the arrival of autumn, and to add to our category of soap bubble images. Or if you’d like to make your own soap bubble pictures, you can go straight to how I made mine.

Soap Bubble Incident

david — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:41:04 +0000

I love soap bubbles, so following our earlier series of pictures that are not illusions but soap bubble fantasies, here’s an incident involving the statues on the Pont Alexandre III in Paris (at least I think it’s that bridge ….). If you want to view some more bubble pictures, there’s a whole category of soap [...]

Summer posting pause

david — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:28:02 +0000

Here’s a picture to announce a summer posting pause. We’re working hard on brilliant new features, for a relaunch in a few weeks. But meanwhile explore the archive – there’s stacks on the site now, and it’s almost all new stuff, not the versions you see on lots of illusion sites. Try putting the name [...]

Funky Wind Turbine

david — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:32:02 +0000

Like my other soap bubble pictures, this one is fantasy rather than illusion, and the only miracle going on is thanks to Photoshop. The wind turbine is in Cornwall, as far as you can go in the pointy bottom left hand corner of England without falling off the end. The bubbles start out as real [...]

Kitten with query bubble

david — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:36:32 +0000

This isn’t an illusion, more a special effect, but I just like bubble pictures. The question mark soap bubble started out as two photos of real bubbles. In a later post I’ll go into my the ways I use Photoshop to distort and adapt the bubble images. For how I take the bubble photos, and [...]

Bubble burst picture

david — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:42:05 +0000

Following on from my last post, about taking bubble pictures, here’s another. I made it a while ago for my selling site, with environmental issues in mind, but this weekend it seems, well, topical.

Taking bubble pictures

david — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:21:12 +0000

Here’s a picture to introduce a post about how I take photos of soap bubbles. OK, I admit I didn’t snap this one out of an aeroplane window. I also admit that Photoshop had something to do with it, and I’ll get to that in later Photoshop posts. But the bubbles start out as real [...]