closeup of snowflakes Alexey Kljatov

 

Alexey Kljatov:
http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.ru/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

My main focus is macro photography of natural snowflakes. I do this with low cost variation of well-known reverse lens macro technique: compact camera Canon Powershot A650 at maximum optical zoom shoots through reversed lens Helios 44M-5 (this is lens from old film camera Zenit, made in USSR. Here is short description in wikipedia). This gives much better magnification than standard macro mode of camera. I shoot short serie of identical shots for each snowflake, and later average them (take arithmetical mean of all serial shots).