snowflakes
 

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Here's the rig. Kljatov decided to boost the magnification power of his Canon PowerShot A650 camera by reverse-mounting a manual Helios 50mm F2 lens onto the front of it. With the camera and lens screwed onto the same baseboard, the camera's lens is zoomed into its maximum telephoto setting, pointing straight down the front element of the Helios.

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Amazing photos. Really.

Lines are so straight

Alien life ...

looks like extension rings on the front of the lens, i guess he can set the camera down over the snowflakes that way and get a steady shot, pretty clever.

what i want to know is how he isolates snowflakes like that!


he's a unique snowflake!!

nice ! :thumbsup

Very cool :thumbsup

amazing pics, thanks for sharing :thumbsup

lens is on backwards.... used to be how they shot ALL macros... a telephoto mounted in reverse

my observation was that he put extension rings on the front of the lens to create the proper focal distance and be able to set the camera down on the lens, over the snowflake to get the photo.

Wow that is really cool! I wish I could do something so creative and I love snowflakes, they are so beautiful :)

Macro photography was one of the initial things I learned back in the mid/late 70's, I had a really good 55mmmacro lens as one of the first lenses I purchased after "the usual" lenses back then.
These snowflake pics are truly amazing, and his innovation is quite inspiring, as well! :thumbsup:thumbsup

Much more interesting than i expected. Nice...

awesome pics

Great micro pics!

Superflake?

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/9...e03d1689_z.jpg

Beautiful :)

Wow that's insane

That's nature at work!

I'm speaking 6o years ago etc...

Or a good hit of orange sunshine and the world looks like a Tootsie roll ....in fast motion... Fantastic eye this one!

Wow! Very amazing!!!

I have 17,546,583,284,488 more in my driveway - he's welcome to 'em all.

Pick-up only.

No delivery.

Pretty sure that's pubic hair the snowflakes are resting on. Now everyone is waiting for the zoomed out pics...

Amazing pics, clever rig, congrats :thumbsup