I tend to be an opportunistic photographer, although I do make some effort to be in the vicinity of opportunity. The fall of 2018 presented a great number, in variety and quantity, of fungi in my yard. I must explain that my yard is mostly wooded with trees up to 100 feet high since I only cleared what I needed for the house and the septic system. This year in seven weeks I have captured more images of mushrooms and other curious fungi than I have in the last 30 years living in this home. Every few days I’d go out and photograph one or two specimen as new growths appeared.
I started researching the identification of the species I photographed, but it is slow going. Rather than wait to share these images, I am posting them without further detail, although I intend to add information as I can find it.
Most of the images use flash or LED light to provide adequate light in the deep shadow on the forest floor. I usually photograph each subject with both single capture and multiple focus stacking images. Focus stacking allows the merging of the sharp portions of a capture into a single image. This results in backgrounds to be presented in softer, out of focus rendition. I also capture the subjects using different techniques with the intent of using the images as illustrations in presentations and posts.
Enjoy the images.
Very interesting collection Dennis. Some of them with multiple mushrooms look like housing clusters from a SciFi movie. I guess you are resting to have time to finish the post. See you soon.
Cemal