I'm being constantly amazed at what I'm seeing with bubble photography. To light each formation I'm using a diffused flash head above and to the right of my subject to highlight the shapes, but also arbitrarily positioning a small hand-held slave flash with a red gel taped over the tube for each shot.
But what really makes the difference are the myriad patterns and colours created from the same solution at any one time. This is caused by light bouncing around between the inner and outer layers of the very thin bubble wall, each part varying in thickness under gravity. Agitation of the surfaces - by gentle blowing - increases the effect before they burst and are gone forever.
105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens. 1/250 second at f/11. Manual flash at full power through a diffuser. Tripod and remote release. ISO 100
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