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Published: 2008-10-18 01:49:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1739; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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Description Photographed with a polarised light source, and polarising filter. No photoshopping here, what you see in the image was what you could see in the viewfinder.

taken from wikipedia "Birefringence, or double refraction, is the decomposition of a ray of light into two rays (the ordinary ray and the extraordinary ray) when it passes through certain types of material, such as calcite crystals or boron nitride, depending on the polarization of the light. This effect can occur only if the structure of the material is anisotropic (directionally dependent). If the material has a single axis of anisotropy or optical axis, (i.e. it is uniaxial) birefringence can be formalized by assigning two different refractive indices to the material for different polarizations. "
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Comments: 9

anubis281 [2009-08-14 22:50:06 +0000 UTC]

this is also incredibly freakin cool

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Jasmine-Jean [2009-07-04 10:31:32 +0000 UTC]

Woo hoo, that's fantastic! You take some wonderful pictures. This one is definitely going in my faves

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infin1tyEZ [2009-01-01 11:44:00 +0000 UTC]

what you mean `a polarised light source`?
Birefringence looks really nice
im gonna try it in the future.. but i need a tip how to do it.

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GavanMitchell In reply to infin1tyEZ [2009-01-03 15:46:54 +0000 UTC]

polarised light source, is a flash, or lamp etc that passes through a polariser... if you dont have one, try using a computer LCD monitor and set the screen to white.. change the background on windows or something to all white, and put your monitor contrast and brightness right up. An LCD gives off polarised light. then you need something plastic (have to experiment with things that might look cool, try a CD case) and you also need a polarising filter on your lens.

good luck

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infin1tyEZ In reply to GavanMitchell [2009-01-03 16:42:03 +0000 UTC]

ow.. maybe i'll try
thx for an advice

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DirtyLittleDevil [2008-12-06 15:10:16 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful shot! Great work

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reachthetop [2008-11-06 04:17:40 +0000 UTC]

Hi!
Ive featured you in my journal!
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Enjoy!

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GavanMitchell In reply to reachthetop [2008-11-10 07:48:52 +0000 UTC]

oh wow! thanks! really appreciated

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AvisBlack [2008-10-28 04:50:12 +0000 UTC]

That's a heck of a shot.

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