Abstract Macro Photography Idea
Recently when walking through a local arts and crafts market (my wife has a thing for them so they’re a regular part of my weekends) I found myself in a photographers stall looking at his work.
One of the most striking images that he had on display was a large colorful abstract print with lots of swirling reds and yellows. At first I couldn’t’ work out how he’d achieved the effect but on a closer look found that the image actually seemed to be a macro shot of paint - two colors mixed slightly together.
I loved the effect so pressed the photographer for a little more information.
The shots were simply two colors of poster paint mixed together on a plate. One color (red) was the dominant one with a little less of the secondary one (yellow) swirled in (don’t mix them too much or you’ll just be photographing an orange paint).
He took the shots with a 100mm macro lens in a well lit situation. He got in close enough that you couldn’t see the plate at all - the impact was striking and looked great blown up quite large - it’d make a great feature image for a big white wall.
Of course the photographer was reluctant to let me photograph his work (I don’t blame him) so you’ll have to use your imagination as to the results (the shot to the left is similar - although more three dimensional and has more colors than the shot I saw at the market).
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Sounds cool! Ask for a website next time :)
That is easily one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I guess this means it’s off to the paint store to get some of that returned stuff off of there hands.
Great stuff, wonder if this paint is toxic, it would make a fantastic contrast on skin.
Wow, this is beautiful. I’ve been looking for an idea for photographs for my stairway. I think I might experiment with this idea!
Damn I had heard of striped paint before… excuse the language, but I thought they were just taking the piss…….
That’s pretty awesome! And a whole lot easier than trying to catch water drop splashes, or something that requires high speed capture.
Excellent article - love the results.
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When I first saw it I thought I knew where you were going but paint surprised me. I actually thought it was closeup of one of those super bounce balls!
What a great idea and the possibilities are endless…you could totally use different color palettes to match bedrooms etc.
Very cool but unless there’s a way I don’t know of to mix red and yellow to get blue, there has to be three colors in there, not two!
Great colours, great shot. Although my forte is sunrises & sunsets, (check out my web site,) http://www.sunrisestosunsets.com.au I am going to try for a similar effect for a shot!I really enjoy getting the newsletters, I get a lot of tips from it, although I still use film for my sunrises & sunsets, I do have a little digital for other shots I do.
Charles Betz: School-grade acrylic paint is cheap and non-toxic. You can put it on your skin with no problems, it dries to a plastic-y feel and peels/washes off fine. It may leave a pigment stain on skin depending on the colour, but that goes away after a while.
The picture you chose for the article reminds me of an odd plaything from when I was a kid.
It was this tube of plasticky gunk, I think it was literally plastic, and you would squeeze out a little bit onto a little plastic tube (like a stirring straw) and then inflate it like a balloon. The rather awful-smelling chemicals in it would quickly evaporate, leaving a hard ball of stuff.
Kind of pointless, and undoubtedly toxic; it smelled like dry erase markers.
The plastic gunk was multi-colored, sort of like trident toothpaste, and the end result looked a lot like that photograph.
Please could you tell me the name of the photographer who took this photo as I would like to use this technique in my Photography GCSE, and I need a photographer to link my work to. Any similar photographers would also be appreciated.