Lichtgevende paddenstoelen fotograferen

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Last Sunday, I photographed mushrooms with the camera club at the Posbank. I came across a very special mushroom, one where the gnomes had apparently forgotten to turn the light off.

I had my camera on my tripod, or actually hanging upside down underneath it, which lets you get nice and close to the ground. This makes it very easy to take two photos from the same position and combine them later in Photoshop.

In the second photo, I lit the mushroom from above with my phone's light. I held an orange filter (CTO) in front of the light to make it a little warmer.

I then placed the two photos in a single Photoshop file, as two layers. Photoshop can align them automatically to correct small differences. Select both layers and choose Edit -> Auto-Align Layers.

Then add a layer mask and paint the lit mushroom back into the other photo. As the cap was quite badly overexposed, I painted there with 20% opacity.

I also made some basic adjustments in Lightroom, adding more contrast by increasing the blacks, adding a little extra vibrance and adding a vignette.

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