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From what I see, the fall was worth it. : )
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Nature "Show" Mushrooms
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A large colony of fungi, extremely small. They are bountiful on logs sitting in damp soil and quite fun to photograph.
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They are growing even on very small branches and sticks if it's dark and humid enough. They can be very difficult to photograph at just 1:1 magnification because of their sized, focus bracketing or stacking is mandatory to get the best of them, though this is a single shot.
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Finding solo ones can be a bit challenging but worth it because you can get quite beautiful portraits of them. This one is a 43 shot focus bracket handheld with flash burst. This little fellow was less then 5mm tall and even at 2.5:1 magnification I still had to crop a bit (mostly to go from landscape to portrait orientation) and crop out a few very bright reflective spots on the right side.
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I sprayed a bit of water from a distance to add a bit more intrigue to the image, making the soil a bit more reflective from tiny water pools, add a few bokeh balls in the backgroundand a few water drops on the fungi. The poor fungi did bend a bit from the weight of the water droplets but it bounced back once the water drops fell down a few minutes later.
The image is a 34 images focus bracketed hand held with flash though I shot 48 images I did not used all of them.
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On my doggie walk, I flipped a large log to see what little critters I could find and I was surprised to find more than just critters in the middle of the summer:
This little one was growing on a tiny little piece of wood (and I mean tiny, it was the size of 25% of my pinky). I didn't have my Oly 30mm f 3.5 Macro with me to get in closer and wider to get more details and for this shot, I had to back away quite a bit to fit it in the frame. But I wanted a bit more details so I tried one of my favourite tricks that I haven't tried in a while for macro:
I went to 1:1 magnification and shot the mushroom in 3 shots to stitch in panorama to fit it in. It's extremely difficult to get the results right because the very small DoF and the tiny focal plane make it very easy to miss the shot by the smallest focus shift. I was very lucky to get it right with just 2 tries (I checked the focus for each shot) and I am very happy with the result. The final pano is cropped in portrait orientation.
Under the log was this beautiful mushroom just sitting there in the dark, it looked very healthy. This one is a single shot. I needed to move a few things around to get a cleaner composition and try out in-camera Focus Stacking.
15 image focus stacked in Photoshop after using the RAWs (+JPEGs) from in-camera Focus Stacking and 3 steps AF setting.
Growing like lightning.
Growing like snow.
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This little one was growing on a tiny little piece of wood (and I mean tiny, it was the size of 25% of my pinky). I didn't have my Oly 30mm f 3.5 Macro with me to get in closer and wider to get more details and for this shot, I had to back away quite a bit to fit it in the frame. But I wanted a bit more details so I tried one of my favourite tricks that I haven't tried in a while for macro:
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I went to 1:1 magnification and shot the mushroom in 3 shots to stitch in panorama to fit it in. It's extremely difficult to get the results right because the very small DoF and the tiny focal plane make it very easy to miss the shot by the smallest focus shift. I was very lucky to get it right with just 2 tries (I checked the focus for each shot) and I am very happy with the result. The final pano is cropped in portrait orientation.
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Under the log was this beautiful mushroom just sitting there in the dark, it looked very healthy. This one is a single shot. I needed to move a few things around to get a cleaner composition and try out in-camera Focus Stacking.
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15 image focus stacked in Photoshop after using the RAWs (+JPEGs) from in-camera Focus Stacking and 3 steps AF setting.
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Growing like lightning.
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Growing like snow.
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Nice shots, Ovi (@L0n3Gr3yW0lf ).
I was reading somewhere recently that it is estimated that there are something like 2.5 million species of fungi, of which about 1.5 million have been specifically identified to date.
Our knowledge of these sorts of things continues to expand exponentially, yet we still know next to nothing ...
A book I'm reading, published in 2003, suggests that there are some 400 species of bacteria in our guts. I remember watching a documentary sometime in the last 12-18 months, which put that figure at somewhere around 56,000 species!
As a species, for all our cleverness, we still know next to nothing about almost everything ...
I was reading somewhere recently that it is estimated that there are something like 2.5 million species of fungi, of which about 1.5 million have been specifically identified to date.
Our knowledge of these sorts of things continues to expand exponentially, yet we still know next to nothing ...
A book I'm reading, published in 2003, suggests that there are some 400 species of bacteria in our guts. I remember watching a documentary sometime in the last 12-18 months, which put that figure at somewhere around 56,000 species!
As a species, for all our cleverness, we still know next to nothing about almost everything ...
