Oil and Water don't mix

In the Womb

In the Womb

These images had haunted me for five decades and I had never imagined the possibilities to replicate them to such precise likeness. Several times in the past, I had tried to verbally describe the inside of the womb as I remember it to be, "yes!, you heard me right," I remember my time in the womb.

RESEARCH

The usual initial start to a research is YouTube How to Tutorials and that is where I went to learn how to make and photograph floating bubbles in colorful liquids. I had imagined the possibilities of replicating what had haunted me for all of my life. I watched different tutorials of photographers and their various approaches to archiving these images.

Oil on Water Tutorial

FORM

My set up was pretty much as depicted in the tutorial, where I had used my flash gun attached to a wireless transceiver and receiver. I had found an old magnifying glass I had lying around which surprisingly enough had a circumference exactly that of my 50 mm Prime lens. I then cut an old bicycle inner tube and used it to bind the glass to the lens to form my macro lens. 

Inside the womb

SELF DIRECTED

With the camera mounted on the tripod, I manually adjusted the focus by adjusting the tripod and locked the camera in position when in focus. The orange color was achieved by placing an orange cloth under the dish.

Camera Setting;

ISO 100

Av F/8.0

Tv 1/100

Processed with Photoshop;

Raised the right end of levels to 215

The Womb

CONTENT
Learning Oil on Water photography technique.
Placing of lights
Positioning of reflected colors
Macro photography
Refresher and practice

Split the womb

CONTEXT
A unique experience that had haunted me for my entire life had inspired this photo shoot. When researching the technique, I was confronted with the possibilities that it was possible to create my haunting images. This is what I saw when I was in the womb.