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Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:48 am

Just in reply to Colin's recent fungi, I happened to be up in the Mt's this weekend (as tour guide) but managed to spend a half hour today looking for and attempting to take fungi with my Fuji compact (sorry no real macro shots here).

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I love dragonflies...I was heartbroken when this one was so cooperative
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby surenj on Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:56 pm

Cameron,

#2 has nice composition.

What were using as a flash here? (Or were you using a flash?(
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby biggerry on Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:46 pm

As suren pointed out, #2 has a really nice composition, really easy to look at, a bit more DOF and contrast would help but, at the end of teh day, it just works because its a fine composition.

#1 is also nice too, a small crop (mainly to remove some dark area) and a bump in the sat/contrast would make this a definite keeper in my books.
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:34 pm

surenj wrote:#2 has nice composition.
What were using as a flash here? (Or were you using a flash?(


Thanks Suren, that would have been the on board flash (the F100fd is a compact and using an off camera flash would have required me to lug a SB-800/900 which I certainly didnt because I CBF bringing a DSLR)

biggerry wrote:As suren pointed out, #2 has a really nice composition, really easy to look at, a bit more DOF and contrast would help but, at the end of teh day, it just works because its a fine composition.

#1 is also nice too, a small crop (mainly to remove some dark area) and a bump in the sat/contrast would make this a definite keeper in my books.


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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby surenj on Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:39 am

biggerry wrote:a bump in the sat/contrast would make this a definite keeper in my books.

Dude, it's time to calibrate your display I reckon. The saturation and contrast are quite ok in #1. [pokes tongue] Please borrow my spyder soon. :twisted:
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:50 am

surenj wrote:
biggerry wrote:a bump in the sat/contrast would make this a definite keeper in my books.

Dude, it's time to calibrate your display I reckon. The saturation and contrast are quite ok in #1. [pokes tongue] Please borrow my spyder soon. :twisted:


Actually my displays are all calibrated now...these are straight out of camera....
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby colin_12 on Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:10 am

I like the coral fungi in the third.
A. you recognised it as a fungi :up:
B. not bad colour out of a happy snappy
C. It is a pleasing to the eye picture :cheers:
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby surenj on Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:43 am

aim54x wrote:Actually my displays are all calibrated now

:cheers:
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:45 pm

colin_12 wrote:I like the coral fungi in the third.
A. you recognised it as a fungi :up:
B. not bad colour out of a happy snappy
C. It is a pleasing to the eye picture :cheers:
Nice set Cameron.


Thanks Colin....any ID's on the first?
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby colin_12 on Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:16 pm

Hey Cameron,
The first looks like a Russula rosea.
The second could be all sorts of things?
The third is a Ramaria species.
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:12 pm

Thanks mate....these were all spotted and captured whilst walking along the path from the Three sisters up to Echo Point (yes that paved pathway frequented by too many tourists)
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby dervish16 on Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:58 pm

I love #2 the most. Really good composition as everyone has mentioned too.
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:23 pm

What kind of fungus is the last photo :rotfl2:
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Re: Fuji FungiPix

Postby aim54x on Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:49 pm

sirhc55 wrote:What kind of fungus is the last photo :rotfl2:

:biglaugh: that would be a very mobile, hunting unit known as the dragonfly
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