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No Birds Today
No time for birds today, but yesterday, I did notice hundreds of tiny, pink "pimples" on a decaying tree trunk in my paddock. This old trunk has produced many of these sightings over the years. But with all the images I have taken of these mushrooms, I have yet to get a really good shot.
I don't think the dew drops do the image any favours. There was some really nice OOF pink stuff on the RHS of the image before I cropped. When the OOF pink stuff was included it shifted the bright dew drop to almost dead centre, and it just didn't appeal to me. Now I don't like the big, OOF mushroom with the whitish, twisty leg on the LHS.
Canon 5D2
Lens - Canon 100 f2.8 USM @ 100mm
1/100 sec @ f2.8
ISO 200
Evaluative metering
Bean bag
In ACR - Highlights -100, Shadows +10, Clarity and Vibrance, both +13 - HSL - Luminosity sliders - most to the right
In PSC6 - Levels adjustment, resized and smart sharpened for posting.
C&C Always appreciated and welcomed!
Last edited by Glennie Passier; 01-18-2016 at 05:20 PM.
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Wow! Holy cow! Wonderful!!! I love the dew -- icing on the cake thing.
Only rational thought at the moment is to consider a crop from the left to remove that one mushroom, but I certainly wouldn't call it a flaw! F/2.8 with macro magnification is pro territory -- very well done!
You have a gold mine here -- go for it!!
Last edited by Diane Miller; 01-18-2016 at 12:40 AM.
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Pleased you liked it Diane! These little mushies only last a day and they're gone. I managed to get over a hundred shots. So you many see some more of them here. It was really hard for me to pick any nice compositions. I was lying like a lizard for most of the time and I got too much OOF FG. I suppose experience is needed.
Last edited by Glennie Passier; 01-18-2016 at 05:21 PM.
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Glennie, I've never seen anything like that even here in the rainy US Olympic Peninsula, where we have lots of rotting trees.
In any case, yours are beautiful. I really like the inset that shows your crop. Can you give us a reference?
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This is beautiful Glennie.
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Love this Glennie, I wouldn't worry about the big OOF shrooms, they add to the "fantasy" of these types of shots. I did one of these with moss spores and if you can catch the reflection of the landscape in some of the dew it really adds to the image. Great job!
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This is magic land. A marvelous interchange among light, mind, color, and shape. It's an image that my eyes want to rest on. Thanks, Glennie.
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Thank you Jim, Warren and Jack.
Jess, "the insert that shows the crop" is just a screen capture of the opened raw file with the intended crop ( in ACR.) I reduce it down to about 6.3%. Jim also does something similar, but he gets to put his ROT in.
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Glennie, that's so cool! I just tried it on a new image:
Processed (cropped) the capture in PS, saved it to LR, then put 'em both into PS with
Edit In>Open as layers in Photoshop
I'll send in the resuit at 1100 PST, when I'm out of Coventry.
Muchas gracias!
