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Leaf me alone!

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I liked the deep colour contrasting with the imperfections here. I wanted to try out the ST1000 macro facility and was pleased with it. There is so much texture and detail in leaves when you look closely and I wanted to convey that here.

Leaf me alone

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Honey Fungus

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

honey-fungus

I was visiting another friend the other day when she mentioned that in the cemetary (next door to her house!) some fungus had grown overnight, and as I was interested in photography I should take a look.  Of course I did just that.

It was very dark in the cemetary, the fungus was growing round the foot of a huge old tree, and what little sunlight was still filtering through was further hampered by an old building in the middle of the churchyard.  Challenging conditions.

To take this I had to lie flat on the floor without upsetting any of the residents, so getting into the right position was achieved with some degree of contortion-ism!  I had to use on board flash to get the fungus and the tree exposed properly, and again had to play with all different settings to ensure a good balance of light on both subjects.   I used the flash compensation feature to get the flash looking like sunlight underneath the fungus, and I think I’ve achieved my aim.

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