The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This thing popped up and caught my eye a week ago and I got out Saturday to get some images of it. A large part of the appeal for me was the collection of fir needles and other debris that it had pushed up and the rest was the shaggy looking top. It looks to me as if something had been eating it, but it seems to look the same under the needles, so I’m not sure.
Specific Feedback
Is the background sufficiently subdued?
Technical Details
Sony A7Riv, FE 70-200 f/4 macro @ 158 mm, hand held lying on stomach, f/22, 1/15, iso 1600, manual exposure. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 7984x5746. Added blur and a light once-over with a semitransparent green brush on the background and eliminated some distracting elements in the foreground. Taken January 6th at 12:36 PM.
Very cool. It’s always fun to find them like this. I’ve even found some so buried they appear to be in tiny caves!
Bg is sufficiently tamed, but we can still see the environment enough and it matches what is in focus. Without more info I can’t ID it for you, but I love the shaggy cap.
Dennis, this is a great find and well captured as far as I am concerned. Nature is amazing. I have seen tiny oak sprouts coming up in a crack of cement. Life must persist! The mushroom is certainly different with the shaggy top, but having all those needles up against it is a nice touch too. The BG works for me. We know that it is grass, but it isn’t distracting. Well done.
Dennis: You are the mushroom master. I’m going to be a little contrary and suggest the BG might be a little distracting. I did a quick and dirty darkening and blurring of it and added a slight vignette. A great find and a fine capture. >=))>
