Glowing Sickner Mushrooms
Wouldn’t it be absolutely magical to see glowing mushrooms in a dark forest. I think they would look a little like this!
Best Viewed Large…👍
I must admit this image took quite some effort to create!
Firstly finding these blooming things was difficult especially when there was barely enough space for a full size human to move about in the dense enchanted woodland.
Eventually after much faffing, fumbling and mumbling I set my camera looking up at theses fantastic looking shrooms growing at the base of a pine tree. The tripod legs were spread out and weaved into the broken off cluttered dead wood and vegetation. The only way to get the camera low enough for this composition was to invert the tripod centre column until it was millimetres from the damp ground.
So, there I was uncomfortably curled up amongst the mossy wet logs and labyrinth of prodding branches like an entangled elf person. I somehow managed to operate my upside down camera manually, without it moving at all, taking a series of shots. Oh, it started raining too so I wedged my partially opened brolly between the tree trunks over the whole set up. I had mocked up a crude outdoor photography studio in the depths of a forest. The plan was to take a set of dark underexposed photographs along with torch lit shots and combine them in post processing using photo-stacking and masking techniques.
Forethought is definitely essential when you have a vision of your intended result!
Later that day, after getting damp pine needles out of my clothes from rummaging in the undergrowth, I attempted to edit my images in Lightroom and Photoshop. It took well over an hour with it being more of a learning exercise but was very pleased with the final image.
🍄‘Glow-in the dark’ deadly poisonous Sickner mushrooms.🍄
Any comments appreciated. 😉
📍#woodlandtrust , Devon
📷 #Canon 5D mkiii
🔘 Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM
#mushroom #fungi #macro #forest #glowingmushrooms #autumn #magical #hiddenfolk #damppants
Glowing Sickner Mushrooms
Wouldn’t it be absolutely magical to see glowing mushrooms in a dark forest. I think they would look a little like this!
Best Viewed Large…👍
I must admit this image took quite some effort to create!
Firstly finding these blooming things was difficult especially when there was barely enough space for a full size human to move about in the dense enchanted woodland.
Eventually after much faffing, fumbling and mumbling I set my camera looking up at theses fantastic looking shrooms growing at the base of a pine tree. The tripod legs were spread out and weaved into the broken off cluttered dead wood and vegetation. The only way to get the camera low enough for this composition was to invert the tripod centre column until it was millimetres from the damp ground.
So, there I was uncomfortably curled up amongst the mossy wet logs and labyrinth of prodding branches like an entangled elf person. I somehow managed to operate my upside down camera manually, without it moving at all, taking a series of shots. Oh, it started raining too so I wedged my partially opened brolly between the tree trunks over the whole set up. I had mocked up a crude outdoor photography studio in the depths of a forest. The plan was to take a set of dark underexposed photographs along with torch lit shots and combine them in post processing using photo-stacking and masking techniques.
Forethought is definitely essential when you have a vision of your intended result!
Later that day, after getting damp pine needles out of my clothes from rummaging in the undergrowth, I attempted to edit my images in Lightroom and Photoshop. It took well over an hour with it being more of a learning exercise but was very pleased with the final image.
🍄‘Glow-in the dark’ deadly poisonous Sickner mushrooms.🍄
Any comments appreciated. 😉
📍#woodlandtrust , Devon
📷 #Canon 5D mkiii
🔘 Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM
#mushroom #fungi #macro #forest #glowingmushrooms #autumn #magical #hiddenfolk #damppants