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Oil and Water
iven the quarantine due to the coronavirus, people have a lot of time at home now. One of my eBooks -Home Photo Projects -- is perfect for photographers to be creative without going anywhere. Most of what I describe in the eBook was done in my kitchen. One of the techniques I really enjoy is photographing oil and water . . . in color. It’s fun, easy, and costs less than $5 or, possibly, nothing at all. The setup is shown on page 11. It is simply a shallow glass bowl suspended above a piece of paper on which I’ve painted several bright col-
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ors using water color paints. Alternatively to the paint, you can also use pieces of colored fabric, colorful plastic toys, colorful vegetables like cherry tomatoes, carrots, swiss chard, etc. Whatever you use won’t come into focus; these items are only there to provide color. You can see from my setup that any kind of makeshift arrangement can work. I just used two boxes of uneven heights, and then with books I leveled the glass bowl. It’s not a slick, professional setup, but it worked just fine. The important part is that the glass bowl be 2 or 3 feet away from the color background. That’s why, even with a small lens aperture, the col-
