I have a lot to learn about my camera and its possibilities. On lazy days, sometimes I spend a few hours just practicing, and then tossing hundreds of photos.
Laurie found these mushrooms in a dry spot near the rhododendrons. I haven't tried to ID them, instead spent time playing around with the lighting, trying to get true colours indoors without extensive Photoshopping afterwards. I photographed them on the kitchen counter against a blue background, to tone down the yellow of the overhead light, which is supposedly "soft white". These turned out almost right; the rest were deleted at first glance.
(I did a bit of post processing, mostly to clean up scattered dust and lighten one where the flash failed to work.)
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| A bit too much yellow from room light. |
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| Better, but I had to lighten it up, so the blue background almost disappeared. |
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| These look about right. |
And I took a spore print, half on black, half on plain white paper. The spores turned out charcoal grey.
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| The half on white paper. Not very informative, but there's no lighting problem here; I scanned the print. |
