Originally posted by jeffreybehr 
Norm, VERY nice images. Thx for sharing.
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Originally posted by RGlasel How about lighting? I assume the pictures were taken while inside, but what were the outside light conditions? I suspect it is harder to get this right than it looks. Thanks for sharing.
Outside my window is a cedar hedge and a row of fir trees, about 40 feet from the house, on days like this there is freshly fallen snow on the boughs giving me a back ground of dark green and pure white. Then on top of that I shoot when the morning sun is low enough that in some place it shines through the branches. And because I live on a ridge, there is also blue sky visible between some of the branches. The background is a composite of fir branches, snow, sky and sun. There are probably less than 10 days a year when I can get images like this. Most days one or two of the elements are missing. There's not always snow on the boughs, there's not always sun. It has to be at least -20 ēC for the ice crystals to form. They were all gone by 2 o'clock this afternoon, whether or not they will be back tomorrow is a mystery. How I line the ice crystals up with the sun and other background elements affects how the final images looks. It sounds complicated but it's all very intuitive. You do what you always do. You move around, line things up change positions, find the angles you like most, and take the picture.
Today, no sun, the snow has fallen off the boughs there's no ice on the windows, (it didn't get cold enough last night) guess I'll go eat worms.
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