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Perfect Porcelain

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Posted by Mark Sisson on October 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Perfect Porcelain
Now there's been some rain at last then fungi season will be well and truly on us soon - but I managed to find some perfect Porcelain fungus last week in the lighting conditions that allowed me to take a series of B&W images that I've had in my mind for a few seasons now but never managed to get everything fall in place for me.

1DS Mk2
180mm macro
f22
1/6
ISO 200

Mark
Posted by Rob Fisher on October 8, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Fantastic image Mark.

Love the composition and the detail is outstanding. Works very well as a black and white.
Posted by Edwin kats on October 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Hi Mark,

Outstanding job. Not very easy to come up with something different but you did.

Love it.

Edwin Kats

Posted by Chris Lloyd on October 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Really Nice - love the transparent look of the shrooms.

C.
Posted by Tim Munsey on October 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Quite amazing, makes fungi photography appealing it's that amazing.

Tim
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on October 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Hi Mark a very cool looking image.

Phil.

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Posted by john macpherson on October 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Absolutely beautiful image. If it were mine I'd crop the top to get rid of the top right dead space which I find distracting, and which I think will throw more emphasis on the relationship between the lower left stalks and gills which are fantastic. This is a really splendidly lit and composed piece of fungal art. Superb!
Posted by Terry Whittaker on October 8, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I think this is just lovely and possibly the best fungi image I have ever seen.

Cheers

Terry
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Beautiful job :toast:
Posted by Peter Cairns on October 8, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Cracking.
Pete
Posted by Craig Churchill on October 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Beautiful!!! :toast:

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk
Posted by Chris Johnstone on October 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Terrific, Mark.

Great lighting.

Chris
Posted by David Kjaer on October 8, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Love it Mark!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Paul Ashton on October 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM
A touch of originality Mark. Very enjoyable to view.
Posted by Ben Gardner on October 8, 2009 at 3:28 PM
what an unsual shot Mark. Brilliant.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on October 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Really original. I like this a lot :wavey: :jump:
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on October 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Great stuff, Mark. The b&w works well with this very graphic subject matter. Probably feel similar to John Mac about the 'dead space' but I would reduce the amount instead of losing it all together. Either way, really effective images for the next edit?

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Tim Taylor on October 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I like this very much indeed. No crits from me.

Tim :toast:
Posted by Tom_W on October 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Very different, very nice.

T
Posted by Dave Bartlett on October 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Just perfect. Like it a lot :toast:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on October 8, 2009 at 5:22 PM

Lovely shot Mark, looks so good in B&W

Andy...
Posted by Ian Mason on October 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Absolutely beautiful work of art. Re the empty space, my choice would be to leave about half of it from the top. I hope this is printed and hanging on a wall!
Posted by John Robinson on October 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Great stuff !
JR
Posted by Fran French on October 9, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Absolutely superb!

Fran :toast:
Posted by Matt Cole on October 9, 2009 at 2:32 AM
that is nice Mark, very well taken.

Matt
Posted by Bob Hastie on October 9, 2009 at 3:00 AM
Excellent.
I love the originality and personally I think the composition is spot on.

Bob
Posted by PhilH on October 9, 2009 at 3:15 AM
very nice Mark, the Mono treatment works well...

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Posted by Brian McGeough on October 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Stunning what a piece of art, that needs to be on a wall !!!! :toast: :toast:

cheers
Brian
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on October 9, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations Mark !!
:wavey:
Bertl
Posted by Jeff Harrison on October 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Probably the most original, imaginative and visually appealing fungi image I've ever seen - absolutely superb :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Kim Connolly on October 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Excellent composition - just as it is. :toast:
Posted by Mark Sisson on October 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM
I've been away most tof the time since I posted this and am blown away by the response - thanks to all your kind words. I've always enjoyed photographing fungi and looking for more than just record shots so it was a real delight as this one came together as i'd imagined it: rest assured there's plenty of composition variants!!

Mark
Posted by Danny Green on October 12, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Cracking Shot, I thought you were busy get some work done.

Danny :toast: :toast: :toast: :wink: