[Leica] Img: Snowflake

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for looking and for the interesting story. I really should  
watch PBS more often. I find it's difficult to capture a snowflake  
photo on the spur of the moment. A strobe didn't work for me. The  
snow just reflected the light back into the lens. So it was handheld,  
available light after the snow stopped. I took about 10 shots. Only  
this one showed a crystal formation although all of them had  
interesting, abstract shapes. Since the temperature was right at  
freezing the defined shapes didn't last very long.

Regards,
Len


On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:24 AM, David Rodgers wrote:

> Len,
>
> Very interesting image. Reminds me of the Nova series on PBS on cold
> that just aired. One interesting challenge that physicists faced once
> they created a Bose-Einstein condensate -- a substance near Absolute
> Zero -- was how do you photograph it? Any light and it's gone. (and  
> here
> I struggle figuring out fill flash). They didn't go into detail about
> the photography part. But apparently they solved it by popping a  
> strobe
> which created a momentary shadow which they then photographed. Those
> tricky physicists! The picture looked like a candle photographed  
> with a
> very OOF Summarit, and cross processed to boot. For a moment the  
> skeptic
> in me wondered, "hmmmmmm, what's that IIIG and menorah doing on your
> desk?" :-)
>
> DaveR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard Taupier [mailto:len-1@comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:28 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Img: Snowflake
>
> We had a short snow shower today. The flakes were very large. I tried
> to capture one.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Snowflake.jpg.html>
>
> Len
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