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Intro: Capture the Ethereal Beauty of Everyday Objects Using Polarized Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
step 2: Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Intro: Capture the Ethereal Beauty of Everyday Objects Using Polarized Light.
By using a pair of polarizing filters and a property of certain materials called birefringence we can photograph the hidden stresses in hard plastics. This instructable was
inspired by this article and a comment I read in another instructable, somewhere, about LCD monitors and polarization.
A tripod
and
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step 2: Procedure
In a darkened room. Turn on the laptop and create a white screen, I used clipboard on a Thinkpad 380 running win98, or you can create a white image in an editor and
view it full screen. Mount the camera on the tripod and point it at the laptop screen, zoom in until the screen fills the camera's field of vision. If you haven't already, fit the
polirizing filter onto the camera, slowly rotate the camera filter until the laptop screen goes black (you need to use the lcd on the camera, an optical viewfinder won't turn
black ;-)). When the screen appears black from the camera's perspective we've achieved "cross polarization". Now we can start with the pictures.
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step 3: Taking the pictures
When we insert a hard plastic item into the field between the laptop and the camera, the birefringent property of the plastic causes the light's angle of polarization to
change, since our light is no longer "cross polarized" it becomes visible again to the camera. And since different wavelengths have different refractive indices the visible
light appears as a rainbow of colors. Exposures are on the order of 1/2 second so a stand should be used to hold the object.
Have Fun.
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great instructable..5stars
When did you realize that plastic in between two polarizing filters would achieve this effect? Learned or experimented? Either way, brilliant. Just brilliant.
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kNeXFreek says: Jan 27, 2010. 4:32 PM REPLY
cool!!!
I am sure I followed all the directions above fairly closely, but the pictures below are all I am getting. Is this, by chance, because the filters are not only
polarized, but also tinted?
BTW: the only thing that is really visible is the edge of my home made filter except in the first photo, where a faint outline of the top of a plastic water bottle
can be barely made out).
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Goodhart says: Oct 11, 2009. 5:26 PM REPLY
You mean you polarized filters are not mounted on the camera?
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ianskiin says: Aug 26, 2009. 7:45 AM REPLY
I thought that this was very cool, and tried it out on my own. Here are a few pictures (taken with phone, camera battery was dead). i couldn't fit a filter to the
phone, so i just held up a pair of polarized ray bans in front of the camera. i experimented with the white background, and decided that i could make just the
polarization appear if it was white behind the plastic, and it wouldn't appear if it was behind a black background, and of course felt obliged to write
"instructables" on it. the second used the negative effect of the camera, and the third is showing how the sunglasses filter the light
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8938408@N05/553797611/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8938408@N05/553797499/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8938408@N05/553797461/
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fallenspirit123 says: Jul 31, 2009. 5:57 PM REPLY
thats really cool
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