Rogg4n
Snowflakes 2 - January 2016 - Switzerland
As a christmas gift for myself, I bought a Kenko Extension tubes kit, I had in mind to take snowflakes macro.
There was no snow during holydays. Then it snowed only during night (which is really bad conditions : I had nothing good), then it snowed during day, but I was at work ... It was kind of frustrating.
In the end, some beautiful flakes fall last satruday, and the air was cold like -8° C. The begining of good conditions.
What a pain it was to get something satisfactory !! It's definetly the hardest thing I did so far with a camera ... I hope to get better shots in the future, but I got some many poor pictures before this one, that I am quite happy.
The difficulty is probably not in the shot itself, but in the understanding of snow and weather conditions : you really have to wait for good conditions, and you have to recognise what kind of snow create what kind of flakes ... you have to find a comfortable way to work, you have to keep your finger warm (in order to use them) ... and the hardest thing : you have to be patient till you have good conditions ...
But that's the kind of photography I like : when you have to catch the Kairos before it runs away ...
Here is a second shot taken on a blue woolen scarf.
Snowflakes 2 - January 2016 - Switzerland
As a christmas gift for myself, I bought a Kenko Extension tubes kit, I had in mind to take snowflakes macro.
There was no snow during holydays. Then it snowed only during night (which is really bad conditions : I had nothing good), then it snowed during day, but I was at work ... It was kind of frustrating.
In the end, some beautiful flakes fall last satruday, and the air was cold like -8° C. The begining of good conditions.
What a pain it was to get something satisfactory !! It's definetly the hardest thing I did so far with a camera ... I hope to get better shots in the future, but I got some many poor pictures before this one, that I am quite happy.
The difficulty is probably not in the shot itself, but in the understanding of snow and weather conditions : you really have to wait for good conditions, and you have to recognise what kind of snow create what kind of flakes ... you have to find a comfortable way to work, you have to keep your finger warm (in order to use them) ... and the hardest thing : you have to be patient till you have good conditions ...
But that's the kind of photography I like : when you have to catch the Kairos before it runs away ...
Here is a second shot taken on a blue woolen scarf.