If I were to stare at this with my eyes for too long I am sure my eyes would never recover.

With 700 Lumens of light coming from a single LED and even being behind a diffusing lens, all the eyes would see is blinding white. That’s where the camera can see something we cant; the detail.

In the very centre you can see the square shape of the square LED die and in each successive hexagonal element it is progressively displaced off center. By shifting the colour balance and saturating the differences you can really see how the diffusing lens not only ‘diffuses’ the light but also creates a rainbow of colours as the light refracts through the the individual elements.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 690, Diffused’, 1/500s f/7.1 ISO100 100mm