Hello Fred, Truly amazing to look at these tiny crystals like that. They don't look very fragile - almost like some kind of pendant or jewelry. Based on what you and Mark Cassino have described, this may be well beyond my tolerance level to get such a shot.
Very nice work. -- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, February 12, 2005, 6:18:45 PM, you wrote: FW> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/4696406/ FW> Here's my second attempt at photographing snowflakes. FW> This time I just used my SMC 55mm F2 attached to my screwmount FW> bellows, on my *ist-DS. The camera was again mounted on my Soligor FW> macro fousing rail, which was in turn mounted on my tripod. FW> The snowflake was captured on a sheet of glass, and place over a plastic FW> bucket with a flashlight inside it. I set up a card table outside FW> my house to hold everything - to my neighbour's amusement. FW> I tried harder to ensure everything was parallel & in focus, FW> and was rewarded with a much better image than last time. Unhappily the FW> snow decided to stop falling very soon after I had everything set up so I FW> only ended up with this one 'keeper'. I cropped and coloured FW> the image in Photoshop. FW> Bring on the snow, I'm ready for it !! FW> DETAILS: FW> File date : 2005:02:12 10:58:38 FW> Camera make : PENTAX Corporation FW> Camera model : PENTAX *ist DS FW> Date/Time : 2005:02:12 08:25:38 FW> Resolution : 400 x 500 FW> Flash used : No FW> Exposure time: 0.0020 s (1/500) FW> ISO equiv. : 200 FW> Whitebalance : Manual FW> Metering Mode: center weight FW> Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto) FW> Jpeg process : Baseline FW> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FW> Fred Widall, FW> Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FW> URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall FW> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
