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The Inky Cap


The Inky Cap
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Copyright: Gert Ellstrom (ellis49) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3388 W: 343 N: 9480] (30807)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-10-07
Categories: Fungi
Camera: Canon EOS10D, Sigma 100-300 /4 HSM, Digital ISO 100
Exposure: f/16, 1/2 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2004-12-09 7:03
Viewed: 1411
Points: 26
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Coprinus atramentarius ( Swe Grå bläcksvamp ).
This is my first fungi post, I took this in October.
This is very common in Sweden

From
mushroomexpert.com.
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Description:
Habitat: In clusters; on decaying wood (the wood may be buried, causing the mushrooms to appear terrestrial); spring, summer, and fall (sometimes in winter!); frequently urban, but also found in woods; widely distributed.
Cap: 3-16 cm and oval when young, expanding to broadly convex, up to 10 cm, sometimes with a curled up and/or tattered margin; lead gray, grayish, or gray-brown; smooth or slightly scruffy, especially at the top; grooved/lined or (more commonly) merely faintly so; without the mica-like granules typical of Coprinus micaceus.
Gills: Attached to the stem or free from it; whitish, becoming black; deliquescing (turning to black "ink"); close or crowded.
Stem: 8-15 cm long; 6-12 mm thick; equal; smooth or finely hairy; white; fibrous; hollow; sometimes with remnants of a partial veil.
Flesh: White to pale gray throughout; thin; soft.
The mushrooms contain coprine, a toxin similar to disulfiram, the ingredient in the drug Antabuse, given to alcoholics. Like Antabuse, the Inky Cap produces no ill effects--unless one consumes alcohol, which will trigger nausea, vomiting, rash, dizziness, and so on. Theoretically, the Inky Cap is a safe edible if no alcohol is consumed for about five days. However, there is evidence that the alcohol "consumption" can be as little as smelling rubbing alcohol or perfume! All in all, the mushroom is best avoided;
It don’t recommend the Inky Cap as an edible.
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Technique:
Sigma 100-400/4 EX HSM
ISO 100 -1/3 ev. Raw format.
Convert, contrast and levels, resized to 800 pixels, USM save as JPG for the site.
I used Adobe Photoshop CS and Neat Image for PP
Some Exif.
Date/Time: 2004:10:07 11:04:10
Shutter speed: 0,6 sec
Aperture: 16
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Partial
ISO: 100
Lens: 100 to 300mm
Focal length: 300mm
red45, willie, Fisher, mumek, marhowie, Luc, sandpiper2, RAP, nofer, extramundi has marked this note useful
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Great shot very sharp, very good note.
Well done

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2004-12-09 8:08]

Just beautiful! Extra sharp fungi, details, green grass, droplets of dew - I like it all. Very good note also.

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  • willie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1023 W: 61 N: 648] (2083)
  • [2004-12-09 11:42]

Superb post Gert. Brilliantly sharp. Good notes.
Very well done with your first fungi post

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  • Fisher Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1540 W: 309 N: 2234] (8915)
  • [2004-12-09 12:40]

Gert, excelent details of the fungi. Nice caps they remind me of the cap that one of the fellows wore in Fat Albert. :)

Mike

thank you for your friendly welcome..my english ys so bad, but I'll try to answer to each comment or photo. this one (coprinus) is very well catched. great work. regards;-)

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  • mumek Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 106 W: 0 N: 178] (847)
  • [2004-12-09 18:16]

Very good DOF.The drops of the water look like
a pearls.Excellent colors and sharpness.Congratulations.

Exceptional job Gert! The water droplets add nicely to a perfect frame. Great job!

I agree a wonderful photo what more can be said that has not been mentioned above.

Great shot with eexcellent detail. The POV makes this an exceptional shot, capturing the deatil of the raindrops on the grass as well as the pleasing shape of the fungi. Composition is superb.

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  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2004-12-10 18:14]

Una imagen no muy habitual para tu portfolio mi amigo, pero captada con gran belleza y detalles.
La especie y la composicion son hermosas y la presentacion de calidad.

An image not very habitual for your portfolio my friend, but caught with great beauty and details.
The species and the composition are beautiful and the presentation of quality.

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2004-12-12 1:08]

OK I wont eat it!

Great shot with excellent DOF and sharpness. The exposure in this is perfect.

Very well done and thanks for posting

yeah excellent it has it all

Beautyfull photo.

Almost two years and I had did not see this one.
The shot is excellent, composition, details, colours and clearness.
I put a link to this in my the Coprinus comatus note.
Please more fungi!!!

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