Amanita Muscaria
I've never seen clumps of Amanita like this any other time but this one late-summer day up Shrine Pass near Vail. So many in places they were clumped one into another under the Spruce. And the color…I’ve done my best to be true to tone and saturation. They were that red.
Dennis, very impressive image both as far as subject (yes I agree very unique cluster) and your composition through post-processing. Colors look true to me.
I read or heard the advise as far as saturation is concerned in the digital darkroom oh or is that the digital lightroom look at that spell check wants that capitalized well adobe has sure done fine job at that haven't they ... ahh argh ahh ... drumroll / rimshot! Sorry about that, anyway it was recommended not to exceed 17% of saturation which I have practice since, globally and or individual colors sliders. These days I actually find myself using less saturation and more vibrance which I also try to restrict to the 17% or last. No matter the tool i.e. Color calibrate tool (ACR), HSL tool, etc.