I woke up this morning to find snowflakes had fallen in the night, and were perfectly preserved on the hood of our family van! I used a toothpick to gently transfer some to my pane of glass, then photographed them.
Actually, I tried photographing them right on the hood of the car, but I never got anything worth looking at. I didn’t realize that someone had set the aperture on my 100mm macro lens all the way to f/32, so it was impossible to get a clear picture because of the extreme diffraction. When I couldn’t even get the snowflakes on the glass to be sharp, I started investigating, and found that the aperture was set to f/32. I wish now that I had tried again on the car hood to see if I could have gotten something a bit different.
But I did learn a thing or two today!
- Higher apertures aren’t always better. F/11 gives tack-sharp pictures compared to f/32
- An old CD makes an excellent reflector for lighting snowflakes from different angles! (Not to mention, you get much better shutter speeds = less chance for motion blur.
Exif Data:
- Shutter Speed: – 1 Sec.
- Aperture: – f/11, (f/4 on the reversed 58mm lens)
- ISO Speed: – 100
- Shutter Speed: – 8 Sec.
- Aperture: – f/32, (f/4 ?? on the reversed 58mm lens)
- ISO Speed: – 500
