![]() ![]() As soon as you find a snowflake, turn off the light. Since snowflakes are small and sometimes hard to find, it’s good to shine a pocket light to find them more easily. It’s not always smart to set the highest possible f-stop. So I recommend that you find the f-stops on your camera where you have the sharpest detail. On my old 40mm Nikon lens, I generally never used an f-stop higher than f/8. When taking the shots, I choose an aperture where there won’t be diffraction, so on my Tamron 90 mm lens I choose apertures in the f/8–16 range in combination with the macro conversion lens. Personally I use a macro lens with a Raynox DCR – 250 macro conversion lens. When shooting with a DSLR, you can use a macro lens, or attach a fixed lens backwards, or use extension tubes. You’ll be using multiple shots, and a second flake landing in the middle of them will ruin every previous photo in your shoot. Once you find “your” snowflake, carry the snowflake and its background under a tree or roof, or cover it with an umbrella or the jacket from a photographer’s backpack. You can see some pretty shapes around its edges. This picture shows a clump of snowflakes. But you can also photograph snowflakes clumped together. Once snowflakes catch on it, use the brush to turn them onto the side that you like better. If you use a glove, you’ll want to leave it out thrown into the snow for a bit, to cool it down so that snowflakes won’t melt on it. If you fall in love with photographing snowflakes, you can get yourself a black matte board or a piece of chemise to serve as an attractive background. While it’s not a completely ideal background due to the large number of fibers, it’s enough for some first efforts. You’ll want to use a black glove as your foundation for photographing snowflakes. So when you see that beautifully formed snowflakes are falling and not just snow crystals, it’s the right time to ready your gear. You can check a snowflake by eye, or magnify it to 100% on your camera.
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