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Birefringence

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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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853x1280px 528.61 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 30D
Shutter Speed
1/80 second
Aperture
F/13.0
Focal Length
100 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Sep 24, 2008, 7:46:04 PM
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anubis281's avatar
this is also incredibly freakin cool :D