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Yellow in dark


Yellow in dark
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Copyright: Felipe Mateo and Cristina (extramundi) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2047 W: 351 N: 4191] (12692)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-25
Categories: Fungi
Camera: Sony DSC-F717, Carl Zeiss 9.7-48.5, Digital ISO 100, Raynox DCR-250
Exposure: f/8, 1/100 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Setas de Galicia - Mushrooms from Galicia II [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-12-24 10:58
Viewed: 943
Points: 36
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Pluteus leoninus

Thanks Marco [Sarcodon] for the ident, as always he has nail it.

This attractive and distinctive mushroom can occasionally be found growing on dead wood in Europe and North Africa. The underside of the cap is typical of the genus Pluteus - the gills are pale, soon becoming pink when the spores ripen. But the upper surface is a bright tawny or olivaceous yellow. The species name leoninus (meaning leonine) refers to this cap colour.

Description
The golden to olive-yellow convex cap is 3-7cm in diameter, is hygrophanous, and usually has a grooved edge. The darker central disc has a slight velvety tomentum.
The gills are yellowish at first, then salmon pink (the colour of the spore powder).
The stipe is up to about 7cm, often striate, being white to cream, and often darker near the base.
The mushroom grows on stumps and wood debris of broad-leaved trees and sometimes of conifers.
At the microscopic level, the filamentous cap cuticle is a trichoderm. The gills have scanty bladder-shaped pleurocystidia, and abundant fusiform cheilocystidia. The spores are smooth, almost globular, approx. 7×6μ.

I found this info HERE.

The photo is taken with the typical DIY ring flash, made from some carboard, aluminium paper, and a translucent plastic cover as diffuser. I use my external powerful Metz flash, through a hole with adjustable size.

It has NO postprocessing at all, except crop, resize and USM.

Hope you like!
horia, Juyona, Maite, nglen, vanderschelden, hester, marhowie, cicindela, LordPotty, Hormon_Manyer has marked this note useful
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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2079 W: 216 N: 3757] (12468)
  • [2007-12-24 11:13]

Hi Filipe and Cristina

It's so nice to hear from you again my friends...especially in this time of the year!
I'm staying home right now, arranging the ornaments on my tree and listening to traditional Christmas carols and from time to time dropping in to see what my TN friends are doing...and i'm so happy to see you!

A very nice fungi macro shot from you with another great use of your imagination in getting the perfect flash and light for your subjects!
I really like the direction the flashlight is coming from and also the well adjusted intensity.
Very good sharpness and DOF overall!

How is your new house coming? Are you celebrating Christmas there already?
Anyway, i really want to wish you a sincere and loving Christmas and only the best in the year to come! But first of all, may you be healthy because if you have that, you can pursue your own goals and see them to a good end :)

TFS and Happy Holidays
Horia

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2039 W: 6 N: 2020] (13261)
  • [2007-12-24 11:52]

Hola Felipe,
precioso trabajo, como siempre una realización genial, perfectos colores y pov.
lo dicho ayer,
felicidades amigos.

Perfect - what else should I say.
Hi Felipe and Cristina, I wish you wonderful Christmas-days and all the best for 2008.
Thanks and greetings
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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  • Maite Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 979 W: 64 N: 1189] (4888)
  • [2007-12-24 14:48]

Hola queridos amigos!
Cuánto tiempo sin saber de vosotros y cuánto me alegra volver a ver vuestras geniales setiñas por aquí. La verdad es que en cuanto aparece una foto vuestra llama enseguida la atención. Debéis de ser unos buscadores incansables de setas, porque vaya unos ejemplares más curiosos y bonitos que encontrais. Esta foto, como todas las vuestras, es extraordinaria. ¡Qué nitidez, qué colorido y qué composición! Me encanta la iluminación de la seta con el fondo todo oscuro.
Una belleza!
¡Que paseis una muy feliz Navidad!
Saludos
Maite

Hi Felipe ,
Very nice shot with great details and amazing light.
well exposed

Thanks for sharing
Regards
Saeed

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1990 W: 5 N: 5539] (20936)
  • [2007-12-25 3:31]

Hi Felipe. happy Christmas from England.You have a very good macro shot of the Fungi . the use of the light has given you good natural colours. fine detail. with the little insect to. so well done TFS.
Nick..
Have a good day.

Hello Felipe,
Good compo.
Well done overall.
TFS
Annick
Merry Christmas!

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  • rdfoto Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 375 W: 0 N: 747] (3202)
  • [2007-12-25 10:42]

Bonjour Mateo et Christina
Très belle prise, très bon détails et couleurs.
Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année
Amicalement Robi

Efectivo ángulo de disparo y sobre todo una bella composición. Suavidad en los tonos y en las luces. Preciosa toma Felipe&Cristina.
Buenas fiestas : J. Ignasi

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  • hester Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1471 W: 18 N: 2981] (10944)
  • [2007-12-28 10:54]

Hi Felipe

That funghi is lovely, it seems to glow in the dark. Wonderful use of the flash. Is that a little insect on the stalk? Great POV and wonderfully sharp

TFS

Karan

Hi Mateo and Cristina,

Quickly, Pluteus leoninus (Schaeffer 1774) Kummer 1871.

Happy new year.
By,
Marco

Hola Felipe.

Que bonita sombrilla con un amarillo muy llamativo.

Saludos.
Jose Luis.

Hola Felipe

A beautiful capture of this delicate yellow fungi. The SOny has done very well again.
Excellent sharpness, superb POV and DOF.

Chris

Excellent lighting in this one Felipe.
The color, DOF, and sharp detail (even an ultra tiny spider visible on the stalk) are all there too..Effectively composed, and a perfect POV.
Just out of curiosity, how many different species of fungi have your indentified so far??
Very well done mf,
Howard

Hi Felipe and Cristina!
Long time when I visited your gallery last time...
A very beautiful picture with truely fantastic light! Flash control is more than professional, and details and DOF are great too (I can see even a small insect - aphid? - on the mushroom).
Note as always very interesting and informative.
All the best from Lodz!
Radomir

Hola Felipe y Cristina,
El que no para de sorprenderse con las fotos de hongos (buenos, setas) soy yo, siempre impresionantes, diferentes y bellísimas. Adoro la luz amarilla que tiene. Buenísima!...
Saludos
Hernán

Just perfect again Felipe,
You can see every detail so clearly!
The exposure is perfect and the DOF is very good.
You can even see the tiny creature on the stem clearly.
A fantastic shot.
Great work!
Steve

Felipe, this is absolutely great. Color tones, sharpness, details - simply perfect. But this is the quality we used to get from You, maestro. Bravo. Tfs the pic and the useful note.

Otherwise, I read this is a frequent specie in Hungary, but I myself never met it, unfortunately.

Not long ago You mentioned You also have red-green glasses so You can fully enjoy anaglyphe images. So, please click here and here. I think I have more of them on TrekLens.

Regards, László

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