Bursting Bubbles
Richard Heeks
With the simplest of materials and a great deal of patience, Richard Heeks photographed bubbles in the act of disappearing. Here he lets c’t Digital Photography readers in on the story behind these spectacular images – and reveals that anyone can do the same using a DSLR or EVIL camera.
While watching my nieces play with soap bubbles in the summer of 2008, I suddenly realized how beautiful these fragile spheres are, how they continually change the colors around them and how their surfaces reflect their surroundings. For weeks afterward, I played with soap bubble photography, trying to understand these reflections and capture them with my camera. A year later, still only a beginner, I happened to shoot a bubble just as it was bursting. I didn’t even know that was possible! My wife was then roped in to help and spent two weeks popping bubbles with her finger at my command. With a little practice, we managed to synchronize everything really well and the photographs we produced were so spectacular that they attracted worldwide attention and ended up being published in various places, including ...
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