Snowflake photo - High voltage III Art Print

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This is post-processed snowflake macro photo: medium size snow crystal, around 3 millimeters from tip to tip. This crystal reminds me duck feet or gecko's paw. Snowflake was captured on large sheet of glass with LED lighting from behind.

For this version, i've transferred crystal to clear black background using "difference" blending mode (i like this transferring method very much, though it requires patience and some time). Original photo was on bright grey / blue gradient background. You may find it in galleries "All snowflakes" and "Bright snowflakes".

I'm huge fan of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, pioneer of snowflake photography, and for me, his snowflake images are always an ideal to aspire. He used sharp knife to scrape photographic emulsion from plates outside the crystal, to get contrast black background. To get same black background, i use Photoshop brush (instead of knife), and draw by hand precise mask at contour of snow crystal.

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Hello! I'm Alexey Kljatov, a photographer from Moscow. My passion is taking macro photos of real snowflakes. Natural snow crystals, due to their beauty, amazing shapes, structures, uniqueness and endless variety, are one of the most interesting subjects for macro photography. My photos have been published by NASA, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Daily Mail, The Week, Esquire, The Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour and Discovery News, showed on TV by Fox News, NBC News and USA Today, used as illustrations in books and as music disk covers, and published on hundreds websites around the world. Here you'll find ideas for gifts, home and office decor, and many other products. All prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson...