Serenity

Title

Serenity

Artist

Alexey Kljatov

Medium

Photograph - Macro Photograph

Description

This is another interesting snowflake from January 2016. It seems that this snow crystal have biggest central hexagon among all snowflakes that i've processed so far: around 2 millimeters or even slightly bigger! We can't classify it as hexagonal plate, though, because this snowflake starts to grow tiny arms.

The main problem with this photo was background cleaning. When i captured that crystal, my glass plate was almost completely covered with tiny condensed droplets: they were almost everywhere around crystal! On some angles of transit light from behind of glass, these droplets become visible and very detailed. Because i don't want to see them at final picture, i have no other choice than manually wipe them out, one by one, from whole 12 megapixel picture. It was quite long and boring work, i'm assure you! :)

15 identical RAW photos, taken as fast series, was averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this picture. Large sheet of glass was used as background, LED back light, and additional lens Helios 44 (made in USSR). This photo was taken January 2016 in Moscow, Russia.

I have good catch of beautiful and/or unusual snowflakes from January 3, 2016: more than 7 gigabytes of RAW + Jpeg source photos in total, from just one day! I've already processed interesting snowflake of sectored plate type: Winter fortress (you can see it in galleries "All snowflakes" and "Bright snowflakes"), and many other amazing crystals waits for processing!

Snowflake photos are available as stretched canvas prints, acrylic, metal, wood and framed prints, posters, greeting cards, Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy phone cases, throw pillows, duvet covers, shower curtains, tote bags, t-shirts, beach towels, portable battery chargers, carry-all pouches and coffee mugs. My collection includes over 100 macro photos of real snow crystals and constantly grows. Just click my name (above left) and see all snowflake images.

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February 26th, 2016

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