[Ian Stuart Forsyth]

A friend of mine sent me this link: Ces 25 photos de flocons de neige prises de très près sont impressionnantes... Et elles le sont encore plus quand on voit avec quel appareil elles ont été photographiées !
I found those shots wonderful for being taken with a P&S camera, almost unbelievable, and just wondering is I could do the same or better with my Pentax gear. Snow is coming these days, and I have a DFA100 macro WR, but I've never tried to photograph snow flakes. Do you think snow crystals are too small for being able to get decent resolution out of a DFA100 and K1. I know some of you have done this already. What do you recommend to get started and for getting decent results?
Thanks in advance for suggestions.

It would help to know what you have for lenses

For my setup I use a 50mm 1.8 reverse mounted onto a 70-200 F4 along with 20-50mm of extension tub

For a start I would consider using a zoom 24-50 and reverse mount it onto some extension tub and see how much you can magnify the image

To test the setup I would first test it on photographing sugar as many times that is the size of the more interesting snowflakes



The more challenging part of the chase is not all snow falls produce good flakes for photography and often times its flakes from fog with no wind during colder nights that produce some of the best flakes to photograph but they are very tiny, this year I have had no good conditions for finding good snow to photograph.

[robgski]

Seeing all of your photos makes me eager for snow fall and a chance to improve my technique.

[Wheatfield]

Check out this guy's work:
Categories: "Snow Crystal Photography" or "Snowflake Photography" - Mark Cassino Photography

[wissink]

I've seen a close call with a birder and his honking big lens+ camera combo at a talk. The audience's hearts collectively missed a beat

haha yeah we did too!

Seeing all of your photos makes me eager for snow fall and a chance to improve my technique.

Not sure if the quote worked.. it wasn't showing the box for me... so I tried it manually.. I found Don impressive, not particularly inspiring as it seemed that in order to achieve what he had, one had to spend the $$$ that he had. I also knew at the time that I was far from capapble of the photoship technique that he had acquired.