Mushrooms

One thing we have a lot of in the pacific NW is mushrooms. I took tons of photos of these guys on a recent hike and this one is my favorite.

very nice photo

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Here's how someone taught me how to post photos from Flickr.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=157706

Thanks all - I figured out that I wasn't grabbing the link correctly from flickr.

The crop isn't too bad....a touch of fill light would help bring out the detail in the log end and the stems of the two main mushrooms.

It's a little flat but I do like it alot

Great shot, love mushroom pictures. I am so jealous of them, I never run into them here.

Nice subject. If I had my druthers, I'd stop down the aperture so as to get that little fellow on the left and the orange fungi in focus. This is where a carbon fiber field tripod can make your day.

Thanks for all the tips everyone.

I agree a little fill under the stems would have been nice. I didn't think of this at the time. Would a sheet of white card stock placed at the right angle been enough light or would I need to use flash? (Of course it is hard to tell if you weren't there, but a guess?)

I did use a tripod - not carbon fiber, but a decent old SLIK I picked up used. Next time I will try a smaller aperature to get a greater DOF. At the time I took the shot, it all looked in focus on my LCD screen.

cmh

Without actually being there and seeing the light....it is hard to tell how much a reflector would have helped. Certainly worth a try if you don't happen to have a flash available.

cmh512 wrote in post #13621588
At the time I took the shot, it all looked in focus on my LCD screen.

In my view, the only thing the LCD is good for is the histogram and the blinkies. I never trust it to determine focus. Been disappointed too many times.

are those little spiderwebs hanging between them? love the colors.

Woolburr wrote in post #13621665
Without actually being there and seeing the light....it is hard to tell how much a reflector would have helped. Certainly worth a try if you don't happen to have a flash available.

I had on camera flash, but didn't think to use it at the time. Also, with the camera I was using, I don't believe the flash is adjustable manually so it is all or nothing.

bekhiann wrote in post #13622274
are those little spiderwebs hanging between them? love the colors.

I think they are spiderwebs that I didn't notice while shooting. They aren't bad in this shot, but so often I miss those little things that ruin a photo. I need to learn to open my eyes.