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Snowflake 2016-47

Snowflake 2016-47

Taken at night with a mixture of incandescent and ring-flash lighting. 14 layers of focus stacking. Olympus E-M1, with 60mm macro and combination of three exten...
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Taken at night with a mixture of incandescent and ring-flash lighting. 14 layers of focus stacking. Olympus E-M1, with 60mm macro and combination of three extension tubes. About 7-8 hours of Photoshop post processing.
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camera

OLYMPUS E-M1

settings

settings

Aperture 32/10 ISO 200 Shutter 1/13 Focal Length 60/1

upload_date

upload_date

Dec, 2016

Views

74

Likes

+6

Awards

Peer Award

Absolute Masterpiece

Categories

Submitted to Photo Contests

Macro Masterpieces

Tags

#snowflake #snow #ice #water #macro

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