Click HERE to go directly to the cell phone image gallery and HERE for the gallery of SLR images .
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My Facebook albums showing birefringence pictures for 2016 and 2017. The setup I have been using.
My video of a thin layer of ice being moved between polarizing filters.
New links!
My Facebook albums showing birefringence pictures for 2016 and 2017. The setup I have been using.
My video of a thin layer of ice being moved between polarizing filters.
NOTE: Next time you scrape that layer of ice off your windshield, don't complain, but think of the picture above. It shows how that ice could look when placed between a simple pair of RealD 3D glasses!!
Rather that sit in the house bemoaning the fact that it was freezing cold outside, this winter I discovered - by way of experimentation - that a thin slab of crystalline water produces fantastically beautiful colors - technically called birefringence - a phenomenon that comes to life when certain materials are situated between two "polarizing filters". I have found it easy to capture awesome pictures of this stuff, even with my cell phone! The Polaroid material I use was of taken from a pair of the glasses we watch 3D movies at the theater with. Cool eh?
Want to learn how do take pictures like these? Then click here --> HOW TO GUIDE. NOTE: As of 2016 I began using a milling machine as a mount for my camera and the ice. For pictures of this arrangement see the last of the images in this Facebook album.
By the way, beautiful birefringence is not limited to ice. See what I mean by holding anything made of hard colorless plastic (e.g. a Panera Bread cup) or a wrinkled piece of clear tape between two "crossed" polarizers.
Rather that sit in the house bemoaning the fact that it was freezing cold outside, this winter I discovered - by way of experimentation - that a thin slab of crystalline water produces fantastically beautiful colors - technically called birefringence - a phenomenon that comes to life when certain materials are situated between two "polarizing filters". I have found it easy to capture awesome pictures of this stuff, even with my cell phone! The Polaroid material I use was of taken from a pair of the glasses we watch 3D movies at the theater with. Cool eh?
Want to learn how do take pictures like these? Then click here --> HOW TO GUIDE. NOTE: As of 2016 I began using a milling machine as a mount for my camera and the ice. For pictures of this arrangement see the last of the images in this Facebook album.
By the way, beautiful birefringence is not limited to ice. See what I mean by holding anything made of hard colorless plastic (e.g. a Panera Bread cup) or a wrinkled piece of clear tape between two "crossed" polarizers.