Re: PESO - Blue Snowflake

2015-01-30 Thread Attila Boros
Interesting way to get a yellow gradient background. Can't explain the blue color, but it looks nice. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: We had e a little snow on Sunday but it was mostly rimey and poorly formed. I took the opportunity to try using a yellow

Re: PESO - Blue Snowflake

2015-01-29 Thread Mark C
Interesting observation - in a sense the droplets (rime) could be acting like additional lens elements and altering the refraction of light. I am hoping to work with the yellow filter a little more and if this turns up again I'll turn off the mufti white balance to see if that affects it. I

Re: PESO - Blue Snowflake

2015-01-28 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Mark, Your guess about the auto-WB compensating for the yellow light is very plausible. I've seen this type of things happening. If that's not the case, - I wonder if it is somehow a result of optical interference on the thickness of some layer(s) of the flake. It looks like the blue color

PESO - Blue Snowflake

2015-01-27 Thread Mark C
We had e a little snow on Sunday but it was mostly rimey and poorly formed. I took the opportunity to try using a yellow filter, just to experiment. In this shot the background is yellow but the crystal itself is mostly blue - maybe an artifact of having the multi while balance featured

Re: PESO - Blue Snowflake

2015-01-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Very nice image indeed! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: We had e a little snow on Sunday but it was mostly rimey and poorly formed. I took the opportunity to try using a yellow filter, just to