Water Mushroom to Real Mushroom

Thank you for your visits and comments on yesterday's 'water mushroom.' Mushrooms of the real kind are popping up along various trails on the island. Here's one of my favorites from today.

[Skip Tribby - ​🖖]

This is amazing Taffy! The lighting and editing makes it look surreal! FAV!

[Jane Pittenger]

Ok, so how did you light this beauty?

[Taffy]

@jgpittenger The sun was so bright right on the mushrooms that I took three bracketed shots to hopefully have the option to tone down the light and up the shadows. The contrast of light and dark in reality was pretty stark. I ran HDR using Photomatix, and then exported to Topaz Textures to use a soft color overlay to tone things down and using some other textures to allow the mushroom to stand out against the background without being so stark. Back to LR, then, fiddling around there to finalize.

[Rosie Kerr]

Oh, very cool! The lighting is fascinating... so clear!

[Jane Pittenger]

Thanks. I never would have guessed

[gloria jones]

Awesome photo, details especially on black

[Maggiemae]

Brilliant focus and the light seems to be coming from the fungi itself! fav

[*lynn]

gorgeous light and tones

[Sandy]

FAVulous image.

[Joyce]

So Pretty Taffy. Great lighting Fav

[Margo]

Lovely presentation fav

[Tony]

Fabulous lighting in this capture. Seductive shapes and curves.

[Shepherdman's Wife]

This is beautiful Taffy.

[Lynda McG]

Lovely shot and lighting - fav!

[Nick]

Really great - fab lighting.

[ANCoxon]

Gorgeous lighting! Fav

[Dione Giorgio]

Amazing photography here, Taffy. This looks more like a fantastic painting. Huge fav.

[Leon Buijs]

Lovely lighting

[sally agnew]

Beautiful lighting :)

[Wylie]

glowing! fav

[Beryl Lloyd]

Stunning capture of the mushrooms , gorgeous light glowing . fav

[Babs]

Fabulous, I love it. Quite magical. I can almost see fairies hiding behind the mushrooms.

[Diane]

Beautiful photo and great processing! Thanks for telling us how you did it.

[Kerri]

Awesome shot

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, beautiful shot and lighting. Fav!

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Awesome shot

[Gerasimos Georg.]

nice one!love the dark tones and how the mushrooms pop up out of the dark

[Lynne]

Nice detail and lighting on this. Beautiful capture.

[Suse♡]

Mystical

[Ivan]

Delicate...fav

[April]

So beautiful .. like they are lit from within

[Junan Heath]

Beautiful light! Lovely shot!

[carol white]

Beautifully captured, great lighting. Fav!! 😃

[Sally Ings]

Great lighting and details

[Jennifer]

superb lighting and texture, Great job, fav

[Allison Maltese]

The light is the star of this beautiful image. Nice detail in the gills too.

[Elizma Fourie]

I like this alot

[Lisa Poland]

Beautiful, they looks like flowers! FAV!

[Harry J Benson]

beautiful; good lighting, colour, detail, & processing

[Danette Thompson]

So beautiful

[Rachel]

Love your processing, this is excellent.

[Richard Hickey]

Incredible picture. Congratulations on making the Trending Page. Well deserved.

[Francoise]

what crisp edges

[☠northy]

Quite magical!

[Helen Jane]

I love the way you have lit these up to produce a magical shot. What patience and technical skills you have with all that processing. super results.

[Junko Y]

Beautiful glow and three dimensionality!

[Pam Knowler]

Fabulous lighting and stunning processing! Thanks for the explanation you gave to Jane which answered my question "how on earth?" Fav!

[Bill Fenske]

Awesome capture and processing. Congrats on curated page.

[Brigette]

this is very magical - would sit very nicely with Alice in Wonderland!!
I've only been able to look at it on laptop screen today. Fav

[Taffy]

@brigette Thanks Bridgett. The mushrooms were so cooperative on our walk...this one looked beautiful in person as well.