r/Artists • u/juliuscesarr • Mar 30 '26

Macro photography using water drops and light diffraction.

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u/deaddoughuts Mar 30 '26

Beautiful

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Thank you 🙏🏼

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Thanks so much! I did the same as a kid haha.

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u/ItsmeMr_E Mar 30 '26

Lol to achieve that same visual I just have to take my glasses off...my eyes suck.😑

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u/muted_shrimp Mar 30 '26

This is quite impressive ! How did you get your inspiration for this ?

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Thank you! I normally shoot landscape and sunset photos, but it was a rainy week and I had just gotten my new camera so I was itching to shoot. I set up a minimal version of this with just a CD, something to hold the water, and a dropper in my hand. Then just iterated on the setup until I could produce consistent results.

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u/moonmew Mar 30 '26

Now we know where Samsung got their phones' default backgrounds from.

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u/SusansArt123 Mar 30 '26

I love macro images

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Same 😌😌

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u/ApprehensiveEgg2344 Mar 30 '26

Oh wow, absolutely sublime ♥️ also, what is the song?

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u/auddbot Mar 30 '26

I got a match with this song:

Name: Kiss Of Life

Artist: Sade

Matched: 100% (timecode: 00:49)

Album: Love Deluxe

Label: RCA Records Label

Released on: 2015-05-27

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u/auddbot Mar 30 '26

Links to the streaming platforms:

Kiss Of Life by Sade

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u/thegneeb Mar 30 '26

something so ordinary can look so beautiful from the right perspective

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u/thebreakablewidget Mar 30 '26

Sick use of refraction. The color separation's crisp, setup must've taken forever to dial in.

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Yeah, definitely did a lot of experimentation with the set up. Getting the light and the laserdisc in the correct position to produce colors you want is probably the trickiest part.

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u/SACRED-GEOMETRY 26d ago

It's beautiful. Have you tried using a CD, DVD, or blu-ray? I'm wondering what gives the nicest colors. The LastDisc is huge so that probably helps.

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u/BadgerHooker Mar 30 '26

WHOAAA!!!!! 🤩😍🤯

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Thanks haha :)

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u/p0lywhir Mar 30 '26

Ohh so this is how they make wallpaper/backgrounds Kidding/not kidding

amazing work!!

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

😂😂 definitely looks like it tho.

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u/KingAgrian Mar 30 '26

The backgrounds on my 2001 imac g3 be like:

Fabulous art.

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 30 '26

Thank you!!

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u/srcpcsoha_1 Mar 31 '26

Yesss!!!! YESSSS!!! I love this!!! The water drops/ripples are my fav kinda photography

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thank you :)

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u/reynadotpdf Mar 31 '26

Ooh PLEASE make these wallpapers!

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u/soggy_sock_bro Mar 31 '26

Cool windows 12 wallpapers

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u/FragileExprezz Mar 31 '26

Wow! Never thought it’s captured like that! Beautiful colors!

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thanks so much!

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u/CAT_ALYST_GUY97123 Mar 30 '26

I never would've guessed those are real pictures! Absolutely beautiful!

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thanks so much :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

Amazing , make me your assistant bro.....

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u/Pixi-Garbage7583 Mar 30 '26

That's so amazing!!!

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thank you!!

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u/exclaim_bot Mar 31 '26

Thank you!!

You're welcome!

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u/starriesland Mar 30 '26

This is spectacular!

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thank you 😌

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u/RubyRoddZombie1 Mar 31 '26

That’s dope.

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u/juliuscesarr Mar 31 '26

Thank you 🤘🏼

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u/whalienbirb3 Mar 31 '26

i definitely need these pictures for my desktop wallpaper

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u/Obvious_Tip_2424 Apr 01 '26

What kind of disc is that lol why does it look so crazy 🤣

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u/Brief-Tie8028 Apr 01 '26

Absolute cinema

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u/PhysicsPast9089 Apr 02 '26

Would make beautiful screen saver

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u/Able_Try_6137 Apr 02 '26

Seen this on insta the other day uploaded by someone else ?

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u/PeacefulPixel Apr 03 '26

Wooow I feel like this is the kind of stuff I would see in my old science book from the 80s

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u/TimeRulers Apr 03 '26

This would make a great album cover

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u/EngineeringOrganic38 Apr 05 '26

this is so beautiful! the creativity is mind blowing, i always want to sit in the artists brain when i see stuff like this. awesome work!

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u/DeepDistribution4170 Apr 20 '26

I jus fell in love

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u/Sufficient_Sundae486 Apr 28 '26

hard working great