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Every Easter Friday my family goes mushroom picking at Berrima. This time I didn't do as much picking but more photographing. Here are four images I took. Keen to know what you think about them.

For this image I layed down on the ground to see the texture under the mushroom and also to get the sunlight shinning through the trees in the background.


Got the extension tube out and got some extreme macro images. The lens thread was touching the mushroom. I liked all the curves and texture under the mushroom. By itself this image is hard to detect what it is which makes it kinda mysterious. I know the depth of field is a bit too small but I stopped down to f/22 so couldn't do much more. Except I could have focused a bit more in the middle.


Loved the curves of this mushroom




Here are some more images on my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54898912@N ... 427851395/

Cheers
Chris

Nice to see more fungi pics.
I hope your lot dont't eat what you have photographed.
I lke the second for its simplicity and depth.

Larger subjects are harder to get a reasonable depth on without focus staking or for the lazy like me getting back a bit further and croping later.

You may sometimes need to do a little gardening to move some of the more distracting grasses and twigs etc.
I like how you have gone the low angle on the first.

The first two images are stunners!

I love the colours and the bokeh in #1, and the simplicity and lines of #2

That first image is a stunner...

How do you tell what's edible and what isn't?

colin_12 wrote:Nice to see more fungi pics.
I hope your lot dont't eat what you have photographed.
I lke the second for its simplicity and depth.

Larger subjects are harder to get a reasonable depth on without focus staking or for the lazy like me getting back a bit further and croping later.

You may sometimes need to do a little gardening to move some of the more distracting grasses and twigs etc.
I like how you have gone the low angle on the first.

Haha don't worry Colin we didn't eat any of these mushrooms.

Yeah focus stacking is too much effort for me haha.

I did do some gardening but wanted to keep it natural too so left some grass . Plus didn't like touching the red ones too much as they are pretty bad haha.
Thanks for the comment

aim54x wrote:The first two images are stunners!

I love the colours and the bokeh in #1, and the simplicity and lines of #2

Thanks mate, they are both my favourite too and for the same reasons.

leek wrote:That first image is a stunner...

How do you tell what's edible and what isn't?

Thanks leek

Lost many relatives and friends in finding out....hehe nah, well my parents are Polish and know everything about mushrooms and can just look at one and say what type it is (in polish) and if you can eat it. As in Poland mushroom picking is very common. I just know what the ones you can eat look like but none of these here are edible from what I know. Just good to photograph haha.

leek wrote:How do you tell what's edible and what isn't?

This is the main one we collect and eat:


Is sort of hard to see but size wise they mostly have a diameter of 10cm but the smaller ones have a richer taste.

#1 looks quite nice. I find the very bright OOF areas a little distracting. The other issue is very subtle. It's the fact that the lighting on the mushrooms are in-congruent with the overall lighting of the scene. It's pretty hard to fix but I reckon it really adds to the believability of a nature shot.

The last picture you posted is very tidy IMO. The colors and DOF and the texture are all adding to make a brochure like shot!