Category Archives: Macro Photography
New snowflake wallpaper: starlight
New addition in wallpapers section: This is one of my favourite snowflake photos. I processed this crystal in 2013, but then i made a mistake and was not saved uncropped version. This prevents me to make wallpaper version, until i … Continue reading
Moscow steampunk (sketch)
4000 * 3000 I’ve tried nice program PhotoSketcher and really like it! It is free, have lots of painting modes and settings, and produces very interesting results. I definitely will use it more. From this old photo PhotoSketcher created 5 … Continue reading
Butterfly wing scales
1524 * 1016 I borrowed this specimen from school’s biology class. This is tropical butterfly Caligo oileus (Brown Owl butterfly, or Oileus Giant Owl). This fragment is the part of white rim around big “eye” at rear side of the … Continue reading
Reworked snowflake wallpaper: Alioth
New addition in wallpapers section: This is reworked version of wallpaper i’ve already made. Now it have slightly better colors, contrast and vignetting, and no chromatic aberrations. Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 * … Continue reading
New snowflake wallpaper: the core
New addition in wallpapers section: Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 * 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 * 2160 (ultra HD 4k). The keys to december
Snowflake brushes for Adobe Photoshop
This is a set of 4 brushes, created from real snowflake photos: Snowflake_brushes1.zip Just load unpacked file snowflake_brushes1.abr from brush panel, and they will append to list of current brushes. In case if this file is not compatible with some … Continue reading
Under the grey sky
3661 * 3661 Yet another snowflake collage. When processing each snowflake, i draw by hand a mask, which separates crystal from background (this is nessessary to process object and background with different sharpening and noise removing settings). Now these masks … Continue reading
Kenneth Libbrecht and Rachel Wing. “Snowflake: Winter’s Frozen Artistry”
From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals blossom into tiny ice stars. Because … Continue reading
Article about snowflake macro photography reached 1 million views
This milestone means a lot for me. All blog pages and posts (including that article) reached only 1.5 million views by now. Currently, i work on third major update of snowflake article (russian update already done, translation to English in … Continue reading
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