Absolutely gorgeous capture Fred! And with the amount of effort it seems required to capture one snowflake, it's no wonder people think no two snowflakes are identical! Looking forward to more of your experiments. Excellent stuff..
Cheers, Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Widall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 12:18 PM Subject: PESO: Snowflake - Take 2. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/4696406/ > > Here's my second attempt at photographing snowflakes. > > This time I just used my SMC 55mm F2 attached to my screwmount > bellows, on my *ist-DS. The camera was again mounted on my Soligor > macro fousing rail, which was in turn mounted on my tripod. > > The snowflake was captured on a sheet of glass, and place over a plastic > bucket with a flashlight inside it. I set up a card table outside > my house to hold everything - to my neighbour's amusement. > > I tried harder to ensure everything was parallel & in focus, > and was rewarded with a much better image than last time. Unhappily the > snow decided to stop falling very soon after I had everything set up so I > only ended up with this one 'keeper'. I cropped and coloured > the image in Photoshop. > > Bring on the snow, I'm ready for it !! > > DETAILS: > File date : 2005:02:12 10:58:38 > Camera make : PENTAX Corporation > Camera model : PENTAX *ist DS > Date/Time : 2005:02:12 08:25:38 > Resolution : 400 x 500 > Flash used : No > Exposure time: 0.0020 s (1/500) > ISO equiv. : 200 > Whitebalance : Manual > Metering Mode: center weight > Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto) > Jpeg process : Baseline > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fred Widall, > Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
