Snowflakes - printable versions, part II

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Trying to do something with low resolution of snowflake shots. I enlarged pictures 2x using SmartEdge demo, free resampling program. It works very slow, but produces output with good looking lines and edges and preserves textures clarity. This demo version also have input image restrictions (resolution should not be bigger than 512x512 pixels), so i processed whole pictures part by part and then reassemled.

Then i applied one of these nice freeware canvas textures in "soft light" blending mode with small opacity. This texture masked noise and resampling artifacts, making picture more appealing (i hope) at 1:1 scale view.

2500 * 1876


2118 * 1588


1600 * 1200

All snowflakes in album snowflakes and snow crystals, print versions here: snowflakes for print.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.

Relief

Small snowflake, around 2 millimeters in diameter (companion crystal proportionally smaller). 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, december 2012, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 1200 * 900 pixels.

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

New design of Tumblr page

New beautiful design of page chaoticmind75.tumblr.com is made entirely by Lucy Hartman. I recommend to visit her blogs:

The-grinch-who-stole-vintage
Glam-ifornia

Thank you very much, Lucy!

Planetary system

Group of small snowflakes, 1-2 millimeters. 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 2256 * 1692 pixels.

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

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.