I had a flu. The B-type. It's over now but I've stayed at home for two weeks. Two weeks at home would have been perfect for some new projects with optical fibers but I was weak and not really motivated. Two days ago however I started a small project that was in my mind for long time. I created a small aquarium with optical fiber lighting.
As a child I was fascinated by the macro world of small ponds and lakes but photographing this microcosms is really challenging. Previously I created a small aquarium but I was not happy with the lighting and the small particles caused backscatter ruining most of the pictures, or the photos required lots of post processing.
In this new project I tried to implement the rim-light concept. This is the final aquarium with fibers lighting from the sides and from the bottom:
You can see in the back my flash (minolta 5600HSD) triggered optically from the on-board flash of the camera (sony a100). I had to apply -1 flash correction.
Noemi, my daughter also tried the system and it was great fun to her to catch the small shrimps swimming through the viewfinder:
Most of the photos were crap due to the thin depth of field, but there was some great capture as well:
So far I took pictures of brine shrimps (
Artemia) but I will use the macro fiber aquarium for many other specimens. I will explore the local zoo shops and I'm also planning to collect animals from the lakes and ponds in Leipzig.
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