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Troy Straub

Snowflake

My first real attempt at a snowflake. Flake was sitting on top of my grill. This is a focus stack of about 10 images. Panasonic GX85, Olympus 60mm macro, 26mm extension tubes, Raynox 250, f3.5, ISO 500, 1/160sec handheld natural light.

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Dr J January 20, 2020 - 4:29 pm

That is great. Wonderful work.

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Dmitry A February 10, 2020 - 3:35 am

Very cool! I can not take photo of the snowflake. Could you please describe the process?

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Troy Straub February 10, 2020 - 7:31 pm
Dmitry A

Thanks!
I'm still very much in the learning process of it. but here's what I've been doing so far. You want a day that is producing good flakes. usually means not falling too fast or blowing too hard and at least a few degrees below freezing. I use the side table of my grill as a work surface and something to lean on to help with hand holding. I put a black scarf on the table and watch the flake collect looking for a nice one. Once I have one I shoot as many shots as I can before it melts. if the scarf gets full I shake it out.

After I'm done shooting I bring them into lightroom and find the clearest shot and process it, then sync the rest of the stack to those settings and send to photoshop for stacking and back to lightroom to remove the scarf, crop and any final adjustments. I get rid of scarf fibers with adjustment brush with exposure and blacks all the way down and just brush away.

The pic in the first post was shot with just natural light. I think I like that better than flash, but most times it's snowing it's not very bright out I think I just got lucky that day. If it's dark out you want to under expose to save on flash recycle time.

We had some good snow this weekend and I got a lot of shots in here are a couple of them.,

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Dmitry A February 11, 2020 - 9:09 am
Troy Straub

Thank you very much for your manual! I will try )

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Troy Straub February 11, 2020 - 10:54 am
Dmitry A

Good luck on getting some good snow. Hope to see some shots

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