Project proposal

I’m blowing big bubbles and capturing them with the polarization camera.

Bubbles do interesting things with light because the thickness of the bubble film is the same size as certain wavelengths of visible light (hence the iridescence of bubbles). While bubbles to necessarily do anything to the polarization of the light, because they interfere with the movement of light through them, I might get interesting effects by shining polarized light through them. I’m hoping that, by shining polarized light at the bubbles, I’ll be able to get interesting images with the polarization camera.

^ that’s what bubbles do to light

 

^ and this is what that looks like (these are visible colors, not any polarity magic

I’m going to blow big bubbles in the photo studio in Margaret Morrison, lit with polarized light, and then I’m going to photograph the bubbles with the polarization camera. Hopefully variations in shape and size (because big bubbles can be weird lumpy shapes) will provide some differentiation between the different images.