European Tribune - Comments - Friday Photography Blog No.6 (Special Edition)

That's very nearly it. It's a stick-on decorative rosette - think cards and presents - made out of holographic film, lit from beneath with a light table and taken with an uber-macro close-up.

I though the near-infinite reflections bouncing around inside it were kind of cool, and not an effect I'd expected.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Oct 6th, 2007 at 09:00:02 AM EST
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Oooh, you've just given me ideas for my own light table - boxed up until my thesis is handed in. Oh I am so harsh on myself...

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Oct 6th, 2007 at 02:21:54 PM EST
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Wow, I thought it might be a hologram of some type, but the lines are so crisp and three dimensional, thought for sure it actually was solid...

by gioele (gioele(daught)sandler(aaaattttt)gmail(daught)kom) on Sat Oct 6th, 2007 at 02:31:32 PM EST
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Superstrings?

by Nomad on Fri Oct 5th, 2007 at 01:42:15 PM EST
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I don't think my optical zoom goes quite that far. :)

Answer tomorrow (unless someone gets it first.)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 5th, 2007 at 02:17:58 PM EST
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is it some kind of stained glass coloured with one of those oil based colours floated on water techniques?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 5th, 2007 at 02:56:09 PM EST
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backlit phosphorescent brain salad crystals?

it's so beautiful, doesn't really matter

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Oct 5th, 2007 at 07:22:37 PM EST
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