Rust Never Sleeps
#MacroMonday
#Rust
#200
Explored 23 March, 2021
Magishroom buddies :) They belong to the rare shroom species "Bolt-headed Rainbow Rustlings", also known as "Sleepless Rustlings". These Rainbow Rustlings are of an unconspicious rusty orange-brown colour during the daytime, and will only reveal their true colourful beauty at night – hence their surname "sleepless". There are different colour varieties, depending on the colour of the cap: There are Midnight Rustlings with a blue cap, Emerald Rustlings, and these two fellows are of the Ruby variety. I've collected them once during a visit to the Naturpark Schöneberg (please see my album), already with a possible MM assignment in mind. The Naturpark Schöneberg is a popular public park, located on a former railway compound, which now is a re-naturated urban paradise and also a paradise for all things rust. Since I visited the park at daytime (as you might have guessed), I was completely unaware of the type of Rustling I'd collected then, but after last night's photo shooting I know that, next to the Ruby variety, I'd also collected some Rustings of the Midnight type. And it was really hard to decide between the two different final Rustling images, but in the end, the Rubies won by an eyelash.
OK, these are rivets or stay bolts. They look like screws or nails, but possess neither a screw's thread nor a nail's tip, and I struggled to find the correct English term (I thought "bolts", which isn't totally wrong, but not quite right, either), because I was also unsure about the correct German term (Bolzen or Niet), but Ferroequinologist Gal and johnsinclair8888 kindly clarified what these "wannabe shrooms" really are - thank you for that :)
The larger rivet's head is 2,9 cm / 1,14 inches in diameter (its smaller buddy's head is 1,4 cm / 0,55 inches in diameter), and both are 3,6 cm / 1,41 inches long (but you can only see that in the Midnight Rustling image). The colour isn't paint, but light shone through my makeshift filters; I'd placed the green bottle on the right, and for the cap I used the transparent red plastic chocolate box lid – I put a small LED torch onto it and held both above the bolts. At first I thought three different colour filters could look nice – red, blue (tealight holder) and green –, and the results did look nice, but with three different colours on the bolts the natural rust colour wasn't visible anymore. So I decided to stick to two different colours. Technically, this is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. The in-camera processed final Jpg images looked pretty good already, so I hadn't to do any pre-processing in DXO this time, but only tweaked the colours (saturation and luminosity) in LR, and enhanced the details (small and medium) in Luminar AI where I'd also slightly boosted the colour contrast.
This image also marks my 200th entry for Macro Mondays. I discovered this randomly when I checked something in my MM album last week and saw that there were 199 images in it. Now there are 200 :)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and to the next 200 :)
Rust Never Sleeps
#MacroMonday
#Rust
#200
Explored 23 March, 2021
Magishroom buddies :) They belong to the rare shroom species "Bolt-headed Rainbow Rustlings", also known as "Sleepless Rustlings". These Rainbow Rustlings are of an unconspicious rusty orange-brown colour during the daytime, and will only reveal their true colourful beauty at night – hence their surname "sleepless". There are different colour varieties, depending on the colour of the cap: There are Midnight Rustlings with a blue cap, Emerald Rustlings, and these two fellows are of the Ruby variety. I've collected them once during a visit to the Naturpark Schöneberg (please see my album), already with a possible MM assignment in mind. The Naturpark Schöneberg is a popular public park, located on a former railway compound, which now is a re-naturated urban paradise and also a paradise for all things rust. Since I visited the park at daytime (as you might have guessed), I was completely unaware of the type of Rustling I'd collected then, but after last night's photo shooting I know that, next to the Ruby variety, I'd also collected some Rustings of the Midnight type. And it was really hard to decide between the two different final Rustling images, but in the end, the Rubies won by an eyelash.
OK, these are rivets or stay bolts. They look like screws or nails, but possess neither a screw's thread nor a nail's tip, and I struggled to find the correct English term (I thought "bolts", which isn't totally wrong, but not quite right, either), because I was also unsure about the correct German term (Bolzen or Niet), but Ferroequinologist Gal and johnsinclair8888 kindly clarified what these "wannabe shrooms" really are - thank you for that :)
The larger rivet's head is 2,9 cm / 1,14 inches in diameter (its smaller buddy's head is 1,4 cm / 0,55 inches in diameter), and both are 3,6 cm / 1,41 inches long (but you can only see that in the Midnight Rustling image). The colour isn't paint, but light shone through my makeshift filters; I'd placed the green bottle on the right, and for the cap I used the transparent red plastic chocolate box lid – I put a small LED torch onto it and held both above the bolts. At first I thought three different colour filters could look nice – red, blue (tealight holder) and green –, and the results did look nice, but with three different colours on the bolts the natural rust colour wasn't visible anymore. So I decided to stick to two different colours. Technically, this is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. The in-camera processed final Jpg images looked pretty good already, so I hadn't to do any pre-processing in DXO this time, but only tweaked the colours (saturation and luminosity) in LR, and enhanced the details (small and medium) in Luminar AI where I'd also slightly boosted the colour contrast.
This image also marks my 200th entry for Macro Mondays. I discovered this randomly when I checked something in my MM album last week and saw that there were 199 images in it. Now there are 200 :)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and to the next 200 :)