Smarties Pants

I picked up a copy of Digital SLR Photography magazine this morning and over a coffee in Starbucks I was inspired by an article on taking indoor photos and "fun with refraction". I followed the article (almost to the letter) to reproduce this image. Its not a patch on the one in the magazine but I didn't imagine it would be! I'm fairly happy with how it turned out though for a first attempt.

The article said you need a 150mm Macro lens but I had to settle for my Tamron 70-300 on macro setting.

So, what is it?

Well, take one white cup or mug (he used a rolled up piece of white card in a tube shape) and pop some Smarties sweets in the bottom. Place the clear lid of a CD case on top and then spray liberally with water from a spray bottle. Then set up your camera on a tripod, pointing right down at the top of the cup and focus (the best you can) on the image of the sweets refracted inside the water droplets. Et voila!

(Bonus - you get to eat the props once you've finished!)

Title:	Smarties Pants
Username:	scotjames
Uploaded:	14 Feb 2009 - 4:02 PM
Camera:	Pentax K20D
Lens:	Tamron 70-300 Macro Check out Totally Tamron!
Recording media:	RAW (digital)
Tags:	70-300, Abstract, Digital art, K20d, Macro, Pentax, Smarties, Specialist / abstract, Tamron
Votes:	18