Fungal Canyon

That's an amazing fungus show. Very much like both the comp and the way you brought out the contrast with processing. The textures are fascinating.

On my screen there is a bit of blue/cyan hue, more at the top an bottom. It's minor, but could maybe see these working better in a slight warmer color cast.

Its a very pleasing landscape interpretation. There is so much fungi out in the misty Scottish woods right now including those Snow White type (Fly Agaric) them with the red and white spotty caps that seem to appear in all Disney cartoons.

nice one - i think this would work well as a b&w with further exploration of the tones.

Jim ...thats craftmanship ...one of my to do subjects ..Love the comp and the end result ..very well done..

Balan Vinod

Very nice indeed, beautiful detail and natural color. Beautifully seen and presented.
John

This is very cool!! I concur with Tony about the cyan cast. I would be tempted to pull that out, but pretty minor stuff. Real nice work.

Jim, Good work on this! Very cool image and nice processing as well. I really like the patterns and textures in the large version.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Very nice Jim. Interesting patterns, fine textures and on my Macbook the color looks perfect. Well seen and for my tastes perfectly presented.

pat

Very interesting Jim. I agree with a few others on the cyan cast in the top portion of the image but really like the abstract qualities here. Stuart's suggestion of B&W also sounds intriguing.

I love the detaqil itn the focus stack and what a cool composition, Jim. Very cool to explore this fungal canyon. I agree with Suart that it would be an interesting study in b/w.

Awesome abstract, I like everything about it.

Jim, I think you created a masterpiece here! Just love the pattern, the texture and the earthy color palette. What a super job!!

This is very interesting with lots of great textures and detail. I too see the cyan cast. The composition is excellent, Jim.

Well done!

--P

I have attached a small version with some color correction. For the top I used a color replacement effects brush and brushed a transparent pale yellow over the blue areas and toned down the blue channel with levels for the rest of the image. I enjoyed working on this image and I knew that it had a lot of potential. Tony, I rarely use luminosity masks, but when I do, I find it very rewarding. I have to download the LM package once more since my computer was replaced last year. I'm going to rework the entire image to determine a better strategy for controlling the blue cast. Using sRGB for jpegs made the blue cast stronger. Thank you for all of your help and critiques .............................Jim

Outstanding image, Jim. The patterns, colors and lines are superbly brought out. Love everything about this.

Neat look at these shrooms, Jim. Your comp. and processing really let this sing.

Jim: Great abstract. Well seen and superbly captured.>=))>