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Published: 2013-01-11 21:58:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 59870; Favourites: 1733; Downloads: 167
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Real snowflake macro photoIdeas for home and office decor, interior designs and gifts (200+ macro photos of real snowflakes, 30+ different products: framed, canvas, acrylic, metal, wood prints; posters, greeting cards, and more): Artist website .
My snowflakes available on Patreon as digital downloads: lossless compressed, full resolution photos; isolated versions, created with precise hand-drawn masks; mobile and desktop wallpapers, up to 4K; vector variants; early previews of upcoming works; behind the scenes; unusual and interesting specimens from my huge archive of source photos; exclusive snow crystals for my patrons only.
Snowflake NFT collection: Opensea.io
Licenses for commercial use: Shutterstock.com
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You've been featured on my page If that's not okay, just let me know and I will remove it! fav.me/d6o52wm
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This is awesome! I didn't know you could take pictures of stuff this small.
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Thanks! I wrote small post in journal about it: [link]
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Interesting! Definitely unique. Keep it up.
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Amazing shot! Now that is what I call patience.
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this is the coolest snowflake I have ever seen! what an inspiration, keep up the great work
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Impressive detailing and macro. Blow me away...completely...
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Do you have a tutorial on this "average to boost signal-to-noise ratio"? It sounds interesting and I'm looking into it because I'm not always satisfied with how Photoshop reduces noise in my Canon RAW files. I'm looking at this tutorial [link] and wondering if that's what you did. Thanks!
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Yes, i use averaging, as described in this article. Because i use compact camera and heavy cropping of snowflake from center of 12 megapixel shot, noise is my biggest problem, it's annoying even at lowest ISO (80). After averaging of 8 identical shots and using noise removing software at background (with manually painted mask) noise reduced to acceptable level.
These snowflake serial shots are not ideally aligned: there is some shifts and small rotates, and resolution of object very small. Aligning function in Photoshop work very well, but in this case we need more: subpixel precision. In recent snowflake shots i use this technique: firstly, i load all shots as layers, and do rough manual aligning by center of snowflake (here helps "difference" blending mode: i shift layers, trying to get darkest picture, which indicates minimal differences, and then change blending mode back to "normal"). After that, i crop picture, leaving some space around snowflake in all directions. This background usually contains some dirt and debris, and it is good, because this garbage will help photoshop aligning software later, serves as additional markers. Then, i resize cropped picture to 500% (5x), using bicubic interpolation, select all layers and apply "edit - auto align layers" function, setting switch to "auto". When it's done, i see good aligned stack with subpixel precision. Now i average (sum) them, by setting opacity of layers, then i flatten them and downscale image back to its original size. Alternatively, good alignment can be achieved by using "align_image_stack.exe" commandline utility from Hugin (freeware panorama stitching package).
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Awesome thanks! I love low light and macro photography. This will help greatly.
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This could possibly be the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life
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It's so perfect, it's amazing to think it's a snowflake.
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I can't believe this. It's really a single snowflake... and it's gorgeous! Well deserved DD 
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Snowflakes are so beautiful
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You know something, this is what they call a prism snowflake. I learned this from playing the latest Time Crystals chapter in the Gardens of Time
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Anyone else see Captain America's shield? no? no? hmm...
Amazing capture, nature is pretty awesome ^_^
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Thank god I was not the only one seeing Cap's shield.
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Amazing. I didn't even realise a snowflake could look like that. Your gallery is beautiful, keep up the good work.
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Beauty can come come in the smallest packages.
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NATURE IS THROWING NINJA STARS AT US FROM HEAVEN.
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Wonderful capture, I didn't think it was a real snowflake at first : D Nature holds so many miracles!
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Wow, how do you manage to catch a snowflake before it melts?
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I shoot it outside, at open balcony of my house. Macro lens was cold enough and not melt it from 3 cm shooting distance.
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