An Elf's Lantern

90mm · f/3.2 · 1/3s · ISO 100

While walking through the forest for a lot of hours and days I tried to find a way to bring the tiny things in those area to live much more. Sometimes the tiny things have so much power, beauty and awsomeness but still they are overseen by a lot of people.
With this series I want to give mushrooms a stage to show there whole beauty and elegance.

9 Comments

Cool shot, my favorite of the 3 in this series.
Care to share how you lit up the underside?

Nice shot! Love the colours!
How did you light the inside of the mushroom? The only idea i could come up with it attaching a tiny LED in there :P

Orange gel, low power flash (for underside?) top def hit with a flash. multiple images blended. Gave it 5 stars - good shot and creative.

I'd also really like to know how you got the inside lit so nicely. A speedlight over the top so light gets right through, 2 images blended? Lit from behind and up? Looks really good!

Very interesting shot and great leading light.

I love this photo - magical light, love the contrasting orange and green, and the background. Great work!

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Amazing shot. The lighting under the mushroom head is incredible. The post processing, crop, the whole nine yards. Def a worthy winner of the photo of the day!

Hey ho at everybody. so cool that this shot was voted for photo of the day. also it was a pretty long time ago i managed to have a look on this page right now, because I was tooo busy with all my stuff going on and a change of my work.

How to:
This picture is blended in photoshop.
It was about 3 images for the sharpness of the mushroom. 1-2 for the background.
and about 5-7 for the light under the mushroom. then I blended all the parts together in photoshop. I used a normal LED torch to illuminate the inside of the mushroom.
thanx again for the vote. hopefully within the next month I can be more active here, because I really like the page and the content uploaded. thanx a lot.