Snowflakes: before and after

Especially for people who doubted that i shoot real snowflakes, here is small "before and after" table. Please click at source previews to open full 12 megapixel shots (straight out of camera jpeg's).

source shot	processed picture

The core

Medium size snowflake, around 4 mm. 8 serial shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (gray clouded sky), external optics Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow. Looks better in original resolution: 1600 * 1200 pixels.

More snowflakes in album snowflakes and snow crystals.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.

Starlight

This is one of most beautiful stellar dendrite crystals that i captured past winter, but it was hard to process because of aligning problems (it shifted and rotated during serial shooting). It's diamater around 5-6 mm.

8 serial shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (gray clouded sky), external optics Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow. Looks better in original resolution: 2048 * 1536 pixels.

More snowflakes in album snowflakes and snow crystals.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.