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After a less than stellar sunrise attempt at Manly; Gerry, Suren and I headed to Lane Cove Bushland Park to try our hand at macro fungi work.

At the start we had quite a bit of trouble finding any decent specimens to photograph – by the end we were finding whole groves of interesting fungi – either our searching skills had improved or we’d wandered into a better place 🙂

I used my LED macro ring light along with my SB900 shot through a popup around the lens diffuser to provide fill and in all of the following images Suren provided some additional back or top light using an LED torch.

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

My favourite – a lone translucent fungi in a forest of green mini fern being lit from above like a ray of sun

Faerie Light

NIKON D7000 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/60 sec at f/32, ISO 1600

In this one Suren is lighting the green leaves in the distance from behind with the light more directional back towards the camera to also backlight the red semi translucent fungi (Hygrocybe miniata) itself – a real woodland faerie scene…

The Faerie Glen

NIKON D7000 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/60 sec at f/32, ISO 1600

Just lighting the green leaves in the distance from behind to provide the separating background – not enough depth of field on this one however…

Toadie

NIKON D7000 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/60 sec at f/36, ISO 400

The LED macro light proved useful again – if nothing else for the excellent help it gave to seeing focus in the very dark conditions in the undergrowth.

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