first try at snowflakes

timbo13

been a little busy lately with the season and the weather (if you heard about
a big ice storm knocking out power in the northeast US that's my neck of the
woods :rolleyes)

It's snowing here today and I decided to try my hand at snowflakes. I have
a few ideas about how to improve these but I thought I would share what
I was able to capture today.

these are the best of the bunch:





These were done with a 50mm/f1.7 mounted on a bellows run out to
about 135mm. Lit with an old Vivitar flash hand-held and manually
triggered. First one with colored filter over the flash. ISO200 and f16

background was a piece of heavy black paper which is great for catching
flakes but I need to find something else to shoot them on. I was thinking
of glass or something like that.

I'm pleased with these as a first try, but I would love to hear any ideas
on how to improve them for my next time. Thanks for looking!

Lord Vetinari

Good ones
Can't really offer advice as I've never shot these. but think I would try to catch them on glass for shooting- gives the possibility of some colour behind the glass.
Brian V.

Aspire

Lovely shots, I have to wait a while before snow again... trying to be Summer over here! Thanks for the info on how your shots were taken, will add it to my knowledge bank Like the effect of the coloured filter over the flash.

This is a strange thought I know but has anyone every made up a bowl of ruby red or blueberry jelly, frozen it and then caught snowflakes on it and taken photos? Not sure how they would come out but could be interesting! Any takers to try it out??

timbo13

thanks for the comments!

I think jelly might crack or become cloudy when frozen although
I have never done the experiment. Might be worth trying!

I tried again with a piece of plexiglas (perspex) over a hole in a box,
I like the light better but the snow in this storm was clumpy
needles instead of classic flakes Here's a shot anyways.



I think I will try and find a piece of glass, the plastic takes a static charge
easily and attracts dust. Then I just need to wait for snow