Smokeless Powder

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Deanimator
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Smokeless Powder

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Grains of Accurate Arms 4350 smokeless rifle powder.

Canon T4i
Amscope 4x finite objective on bellows
Flashpoint studio strobe
Wemacro
Zerene

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Nice! I have done this a few times, and I find these really hard to light. They have very dark and very bright parts, so I appreciate the lighting challenge.

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nanometer wrote:Nice! I have done this a few times, and I find these really hard to light. They have very dark and very bright parts, so I appreciate the lighting challenge.
Thanks.

Apart from the occasional photo in a reference book, I've never looked that closely at powder. I was surprised by the surface texture which isn't visible to the naked eye.

The foam drinking cup diffuser suggestion I got here is paying off well.

I've got a variety of pistol and rifle powders on hand. I'll see what details emerge with ball and flake powders.

The Flashpoint strobe is really working out for stuff like this.

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