Tendril
Spectrum
Spectrum reflection
clear spectrum
Spectrum Glint: Here the scene is lit from above in white, while I held a flashlight off to the side. I tried to aim the light to get those sparkles off the tips of the glasses on the right and shine through the water on the left.
Dark Spectrum: Lighting for this shot came from sweeping a flashlight back and forth over the glasses during a few-second exposure.
Beam
JJ Abrams FAIL
Raw Color: I think this is the one in which I dragged my incandescent desk lamp across the front of the setup while the exposure was going. It's had its contrast blown out, too.
Kryptonite: I mean, what else could I possibly name this shot?
Molten water
Galaxy in a Glass: This is a flashlight with a red filter behind the blue-colored water. I love how refraction through the thicker bottom of the glass distorts the circular flashlight face into a spiral-like shape.
Beacon: Maglites can be "uncorked" to reveal their bare (LED) bulb.
Pool of Light: In this one, the main light source is not the Maglite, but a second flashlight that I swept around in a circle for the duration of the exposure.
Blaze
This was a failed attempt to catch a water-drop photo, but I like the end result of the fast shutter with this color water.
Distortion
Color Cores: This one has the most significant postprocessing. It consists of an added stack of five images; each sub-image is of me shining my flashlight down into each glass in turn, a little off-center towards the camera to that the glass bounced a lot of light around.
A CHDK motion-trigger script and really fast shutter override finally got me a picture of dye "mushrooming" into the glass. Nicole informs me that this is an example of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
