Once I did research and knew I was one hundred percent certain that I wished to continue this route, I began to do some experimentations. I used a microscope and was able to take several photographs using my phone camera.
Some of the images had a blue ring around them, I attempted to get rid of it and succeed in only a handful of images, however I still enjoyed the process. It was quite fun to do – originally I thought it was a very simple process however it did take a while to get the phone in the right position and try to get rid of the blue ring. Especially images like the one above (left); a close up of a piece of paper where the blue showed up with ease because of the white background.
In the image (right) image the blue wasn’t as harsh – however it was still there, which was aggravating as they kept either having the blue ring or almost like a glimmer to it. But I was still happy to get some of the results that I got.
This is one of the images with the better results, there wasn’t much of a blue ring and there wasn’t the shimmering I had previously mentioned. It was a close up of a sticker.
I took these three photos of a purse as it had a mixture of textures – leather, metal and string which gave me multiple images varying in texture making them seem like three different images.
These are two examples of the glimmering effect that started to take place after a while – there’s multiple other images which look similar. At first, I believed it was the fact it was on a metallic surface however I took photos of fabrics such as jeans and hoodies with a similar effect to them.
This was a close up of a food wrapper – it had the blue circle, however it thankfully blended due to the colouring on the packaging.
This was a close up of a logo on a hoodie which is yet another image that had a glimmering effect. For my final piece I am planning on getting several microscopic images of different fabrics/textiles. I’m hoping to have a range of colours going in order.
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