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Canon EOS 7D + Canon 430EX II + Kenko extension tubes (full set) + Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM (2.1:1)
Flash on bracket
Handheld, some sharpening, minor crop
Metered exposure -2EV
Not true bracketing as I only decreased the exposures, experience has taught that there is not usually an advantage to increasing exposure in these situations.
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Bracket fungi on a dead tree in Lauerholz (Lauen wood), Hanseatic City Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Bracket fungi growing on the face of a peachleaf willow (Salix amygdaloides) tree trunk.
Maple Grove, Minnesota
April 23, 2011
by Cory Zanker
Fungi are an important part of ecosystem nutrient cycles. These bracket fungi growing on the side of a tree are the fruiting structures of a basidiomycete. They receive their
nutrients through their hyphae, which invade and decay the tree trunk.
3 bracketed exposures -2 0 +2 Merged in Photoshop CS2
I used highlight compression instead of local adaptation.
I find it difficult to get the exotic look that people create using Photomax, but I can get very detailed exposures with Photoshop.
Photographing fungi and lichen almost invariably involves crawling around the forest floor over and around wet leaves, fallen logs, or tree stumps, and the subject of the photograph is almost always shot from above. However, in this case I got lucky and found some lovely bracket fungi high up on the trunk of a still-living tree. This afforded a much different view and, in particular, allowed me to photograph the bracket structure after which the common name of this family of fungi is derived.