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l_acland · Post by **l_acland** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:54 pm

Found these growing on a petri dish I left outside to catch snowflakes, so took them into my cottage's extension which I keep cold for winter photography.
Photographed using a M420 Leica Apozoom Macroscope, magnified here to about 25X. Natural light reflected by mirror.

augusthouse · Post by **augusthouse** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:56 pm

Laurence,

Unique detail, fascinating subject.

Lighting technique reveals the intricate structure.

Why is it blue - filter or gel or?

Craig

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:47 am

Superbe!

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:01 am

Fantastic!

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:08 am

l_acland wrote: took them into my cottage's extension which I keep cold for winter photography.

Hmmm. I like your style! My wife keeps talking about getting a small extension. I wonder...

Harold

l_acland · Post by **l_acland** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:28 am

Thanks for your question Craig. I shot the crystals using available daylight and it being late in the day, in fact after sunset, the light was very cold as were the shooting conditions. I shot six frames in Raw File Format and directly imported them into Helicon Focus to increase depth-of-field. I did some final touch-up in Photoshop but didn't need to adjust the saturation to get those chilly wintery blues.

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