Shaggy Top (Boletellus emodensis - Hairy-cap Mushroom) #3

THE SUBJECT:
The shaggy top of a Boletellus emodensis (Hairy-cap Mushroom) in the glorious natural light of an autumn afternoon.

THE LOCATION:
Beside a track in the Kattang Nature Reserve at Dunbogan, NSW, Australia.

THE MAKING of ‘Shaggy Top (Boletellus emodensis – Hairy-cap Mushroom) #3’:
I was on a fungi safari with a Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mate and we had only begun our hunt when I spotted the shaggy top of this fungus displaying itself so well against the rotting stump and caught in lovely side lighting.
Fuji S9600: RAW, Manual settings of f/11 @ 1/5sec, Manual focus, ISO80, Tripod, Timer.
Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3.

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NOTE:
I lightened the image slightly and gave the saturation a little tweak for printing on Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss Media and it did a marvellous job on the colours and gave the image good depth.

UPDATE: 30-04-09
This shaggy ‘shroom has been featured in the Natural Color and Light Group.

UPDATE: 10-05-09
This hirsute fungus was named POTD in the Shutterbugs site Macro/Abstract section.

UPDATE: 8-9-09
My mop top mushroom was awarded a Merit in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s August 2009 Competition in the Open Large Colour Print Section.

UPDATE: 17-9-09
My solo shaggy fungus made the TOP TEN in the Fungilicious Group’s One Fungi Only Challenge.

Enjoy!

FUNGI: KATTANG
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Boletellus emodensis