Apparently I started a new mycophotography hobby yesterday. I’ve been stunned by the results you folks get in your digital darkrooms, and I’m looking forward to learning from you.
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Hi @Gerd we generally find it in bad form to offer unsolicited advice. Play raws are for editing, not critiquing. We have a whole category for critiques.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Gerd
Hi @Gerd we generally find it in bad form to offer unsolicited advice. Play raws are for editing, not critiquing. We have a whole category for critiques.
Thanks!
I went for a definitely darker look and richer greens.
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Here’s my go. Practicing my masking. Paint stroked the mushroom then dropped surrounding exposure by 2 stops and then emphasized the red in the mushroom and the green in the background. After cropping I couldn’t get the distracting twig out of the lower left corner so retouched, again to practice masking. Beautiful shot, nice work.
@lylejk what program are you using for the marble effect. Sort of cool.
All GIMP (with filters) and G’MIC (the filter of filters), Terry. Below’s a tut I posted on how. I did add Bevel Reflect Logo filter to create the marbles (and blended in a bit of Inkscape’s Marble filter; some of my secret sauce that I don’t often share). 
