Autumnal mushrooms

This is absolutely beautiful work. You've successfully rendered the complete mushroom sharp by stacking them. Lovely colours & exposure. The bokeh is awesome !
I find the OOF object/growth on the LLC a bit distracting though.

BTW, are you using a sigma macro ?

rgds,
Kaushik

Beautiful! Its like HD, I can almost reach out and touch them. The background is nice and smooth and the shrooms are sharp! Very nice !

The mushrooms are very nice. They have a lot of character and attitude with all that elbowing for space. The background is as smooth as butter.

I like the composition quite a bit. The out of focus area in the lower left corner seems out of place in such a tidy composition. I know that sort of element can give depth to an image, but I think you have already done that with the sharp mushrooms against the poster-like background.

Nice job on lighting too, by the way.

Pete D.

Hi

Thanks for commenting - it's appreciated! It is the Sigma macro, which I like a lot, now that I've got used to working with a macro at a longer focal length.

I debated with myself about the OOF area in the front. This is because the stump came around towards me, and would have been difficult to render I think. I wanted to give a sense of depth (a bit like a landscape) as otherwise it would all have been on one plane - I could clone it out but I suspect that it would look obvious (and if I moved around to the right, you would have seen the ragged chuck bitten out of the far right mushroom!).



Mark

Beautiful image Mark - your merging work appears perfect. Wish you could avoid that out of focus area on lower left but often we don't have enough control. Thanks or sharing.

Nice shot Mark. Excellent use of light and great background. I do find that OOF area in the bottom left corner a tad distracting. Maybe try cloning it out.

Ronnie

A beautifull group of mushrooms, and well presented

Superb capture

Nice capture and bg.