Cool. My camera has a decent macro setting, I wonder if I could pull this off. How did you do it?

I set up a studio strobe, (Norman 808m charging box with a Norman 500+ stobe) out on the porch, and used an extended rear focal macro lens that I made out of an old Minolta 50mm prime and a set of bellows, used a small sheet of black velvet, witch I dampened the back side of and left in the freezer for a bit, caught some snow flakes on it and laid it down on the snowbank next to the porch, and hunted down the cool looking ones before they melted. it's way easier to do in the day time, just lay a cloth down somewhere while its snowing, and hunt the cool ones, doing it at night needs weird strobes or if you have a ring flash you can just cheat and do it that way. I had to macguiver everything lol.

the problem i am having is that extending the rear focal length makes the depth of field very very shallow, so that even if the snow flake is tilted just a bit, some of it is out of focus.
A tighter aperture would help, if I could get more light with out melting the snow flake.
I tried to use all the studio lights at one shot but even that wasn't enough, 8,000 watt strobes...
It was kind of like the snow flake equivalent of Hiroshima.
And if I use a faster ISO, I will get more grain, the highest I wanted to go with this was 200, and even that makes me sad.
The camera can go up to 12800 ISO, but not down to 64 or 32... wtf Canon.
Anyway, the only real fix for this would be to get a tight forward focal length, and in order to do that, I would have to spend like 800 bucks on a lens that I would only use here and there, so, fuck that.

Haha, so these are like the flash impressions of a snowflake before it is annihilated by the heat of the very thing capturing it.