Hunting For Bubbles

16Jan14

I’ve been hunting for a place where I could use my 6-stop ND filter to capture bubbles in motion and finally found a suitable place while scouting today. Bubbles are a natural occurrence found in Southern New Jersey Pineland’s streams. Prior attempts had been fun practice but the scenes were not quite what I had hoped. Today, I think I got closer to what I have been looking for. The bubbles here were being stirred up by a tiny dam just left of the frame. By using the filter I lengthened the shutter speed to 8 seconds which was long enough to record the swirling blur. I’ll surely be hunting for more bubbles to capture … this was fun!

‘Swirling Bubbles’ © Denise Bush

Filed under: Landscape, Landscape Photography, Photography | 26 Comments
Tags: bubbles, landscape, neutral density filter, new jersey, photography, pine barrens, pinelands, stream

26 Responses to “Hunting For Bubbles”

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1 Dana S. Hugh on January 16, 2014 said:

That’s something else….! love it!

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- 2 denisebushphoto on January 17, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Dana. Nice to come up with something that doesn’t look like everything else for a change!
  
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3 Pat Worley on January 16, 2014 said:

I love the blue and white abstract feel to the water. Beautiful.

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- 4 denisebushphoto on January 16, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Pat … something appropriate following my long exposure techniques workshop!
  
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5 Rich Lewis on January 16, 2014 said:

I love the flow of this image but am particularly enjoying how the foreground is more of an abstraction but the background is a straight up landscape. It’s very beautiful.

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- 6 denisebushphoto on January 17, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Rich. Had some fun at this place!
  
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7 Bob Damato on January 17, 2014 said:

Nice, I love abstracts! I’ll give u a 9

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- 8 denisebushphoto on January 17, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Bob! I appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment!
  
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9 catskillblogger on January 18, 2014 said:

I never knew that, and I grew up in the Pinelands region.

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- 10 denisebushphoto on January 20, 2014 said:
  
  Oh … where did you grow up?
  
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  - 11 catskillblogger on January 20, 2014 said:
    
    Vineland, New Jersey
12 Rich Doerr on January 21, 2014 said:

Nice capture. As I scrolled down on the image, I was more impressed by the lower half of the image. Intriguing abstract. Either way, nice work. What was f stop? I assume you shot at ISO 100. Rich

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- 13 denisebushphoto on January 21, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Rich. f/16, 8 sec, ISO 200 like the post said, I used a -6 stop ND filter. You need to take a few examine and adjust the exposure to get the amount of blur you are looking for. I probably needed it to be a bit faster and didn’t want to sacrifice depth of field so I boosted the ISO up to 200.
  
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14 Annie Japaud Photography on January 23, 2014 said:

gorgeous!!

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- 15 denisebushphoto on January 23, 2014 said:
  
  Thank you Annie!!!
  
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16 MWPHOTOJOURNAL on January 26, 2014 said:

Living in the tropics your photos are a welcome respite from the humidity. I envy your icy wonderland that you and your camera have captured. My compliments, look forward to following your words through the snow.

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- 17 denisebushphoto on January 26, 2014 said:
  
  Thank you Michael. And, when I’m yearning for summer I’ll come visit your blog … all the way on the other side of the earth. Isn’t technology great?
  
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18 Terry Wilson on January 28, 2014 said:

Those black filters are a lot of fun. Like the spiraling water.

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- 19 denisebushphoto on January 28, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Terry … yes, lots of fun.
  
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20 Isabel Fernández Bernaldo de Quirós on January 28, 2014 said:

This is so beautiful!

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- 21 denisebushphoto on January 28, 2014 said:
  
  Thank you Isabel. I appreciate you taking the time to come look and leave a comment.
  
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22 lensaddiction on January 29, 2014 said:

Hi Denise, you kindly commented on my blog so I thought I would visit yours. LOVE this photo, I have a variable ND filter I use for shooting waterfalls but never thought of using it like this so thanks for the inspiration 🙂

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- 23 denisebushphoto on January 30, 2014 said:
  
  Thank you Stacey. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
  
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  - 24 lensaddiction on January 30, 2014 said:
    
    I have to find a handy stream to experiment with but sure will 🙂
25 Vickie on February 2, 2014 said:

I really love this

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- 26 denisebushphoto on February 2, 2014 said:
  
  Thanks Vickie!
  
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