It's been raining for days but temperatures are still around 15-17 degrees centigrade, ideal weather for my friends the fungi. All shapes and sizes but today I concentrated on the porcelain fungus (Collybia mucida). Shooting straight into the sun to get the translucent shine to the insides of the fungi and show off the finely ribbed structures poses its challenges, certainly at f2.8-3.5.
The bokeh of this Sigma lens is unpredictable, as if it has a life of its own. You don't get it for ages and then suddenly, images spring alive with it. One of the images had such a burnt-out sky that I had to replace the background with one from the other images - I'd hate to have lost the glorious fungi on that one just because of overexposure in patches of sky. On another one I exaggerated the DOF somewhat with a depthmap. The rest is straight conversion from raw with just some NR and USM thrown in.
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Afraid my processing skills are dismal at best......
Originally posted by WillH 
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