Refraction Photography
Captures images distorted, inverted, or magnified by light bending as it passes through transparent mediums like water droplets, glass spheres
- How it Works: Light bends (refracts) when traveling between materials of different densities, such as from air into water or glass.
- This bends the light rays, often creating an inverted (upside-down) image of the background within the transparent object.
- Common Subjects/Objects:
- Water Droplets: Sprayed on glass, often to capture background images in miniature.
- Glass Objects: Wine glasses, marbles, bottles, or jars.
- Lensballs/Crystal Balls: Clear, solid spheres that act as convex lenses to refract the surrounding scene.
Glass with Water In Front of Screen
The Set Up
- Pick and download all of your files before starting the project
- Set up the glass cups in front of the computer screen on the mirror
- Have the glass sitting on something that will elivate it to the height of the computer moniter.
- Set your camera to AV F/5 or higher
Editing
- Must edit in Camera Raw (ACR)
- Adjust the Basics (contrast, shadows, highlights, etc)
- Clarity, Dehaze
Photoshop
- Crop out anything that is distracting from the image.
- You should not see the monitors edge
- Edit in Camera Raw so that all of the colors pop and exposure is correct
- When editing a black and white image make sure the whites and blacks are very strong
- Add Logo
Assignment: 3 Photos
- Primary or Secondary Color Design Refraction
2. Contrasting Color Design Refraction
3. Black and White Color Design Refraction
What not to do: