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1 ‘Sunrise in Outer Space’ by Gary Peal
“I took this shot following your project on shooting oil and water in issue 237. I set up my iPad with a multi-coloured screen on full brightness, placed a box of pasta at either end, and (dangerously) balanced a jug of water across the boxes so that the light from the iPad shone upwards through the jug. I added oil in gradually and waited to see what shapes formed, then applied a polarising filter to my M. Zuiko macro lens to create some abstract colours (using a tip from another previous issue). Before long, the large bubble formed and I shot several images, all handheld at f/3.5, moving the camera in and out until I got as sharp a focus as I could get. Editing the shot afterwards, I spot-healed the large
