Question about oil and water macro photography experiment

12 years 8 months ago #128732 by Justin
I've seen some nice photos in the gallery here of someone playing around with water and oil and making these colorful photographs with interesting shapes and such from the oil interacting with the water.

I would like to try this myself this weekend, I was wondering what is the best oil to use for this?

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12 years 8 months ago #128762 by Arts
I have not come across these images, but I would think any oil would be fine. I'm use car oil wouldn't work as well. BTW, would you mind linking the images you are talking about? I would love to see them.


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12 years 8 months ago #128764 by Pixelchix
I use regular canola oil


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12 years 8 months ago #128773 by Baydream
Excellent example, Meredith. And environmentally friendly. You can cook pasta in it afterwards :lol:

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12 years 8 months ago #128774 by Dori
Here is a great tutorial!

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12 years 8 months ago #128802 by Arts

Pixelchix wrote: I use regular canola oil


Awesome image.


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12 years 8 months ago #128953 by photobod
I used olive oil and the dish was 12" off the ground with various different objects underneath to make it colourful, I also sprinkled chilli flakes in this one.

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12 years 8 months ago #129684 by Pixelchix

Baydream wrote: Excellent example, Meredith. And environmentally friendly. You can cook pasta in it afterwards :lol:

Thanks and yes I could!!

'Here is a great tutorial!'
This is exactly where I learned it. But I didn't do it outside


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12 years 8 months ago #129899 by steveheap
I did this as well. My approach was to take a small plain glass tumbler with about 1 inch of water in it. Then drop in some olive oil and stir about a bit to create the bubbles. The tumbler was placed on a glass table, with a colorful magazine about 12 inches below. I lit the magazine with a flash, and the reflected colors showed up through the oil in the water. The more colorful, the better!

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12 years 8 months ago #129901 by MLKstudios
They must work.. am hearing Grateful Dead tunes in my head. ;)

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12 years 8 months ago #129902 by Nikonjan


Also just used veg. oil and water. But I also hand held a flash at a small distance shooting under the pan to create depth.

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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #129905 by MLKstudios
Sugar Magnolia.. doo, de doo.

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