by Jim Zablotny
This micro-landscape covers an area of about 3 by 5 inches. The mushrooms and moss were growing on the inside of a knot on a stump. I used Tony Kuyper's luminosity masks for shadow darks and lights and then bumped up the color saturation with Make It Glow at 4 pixels. Details were enhanced with Topaz Details before final sharpening. K5 IIs 180mm f3.5 (1.3sec at f22, ISO 125)............................Jim
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3 commentsGreat details Jim, and I like the comp you managed to pull out of what I might otherwise just view as a "clump." The only thing I mights suggest is possibly darkening the right side -- perhaps with sort of a soft vignette -- because I find the brightness there just a bit distracting.
Hi Wayne,
Thank you for the critique. I added a Vignette using the lens correction filters in CS5 and masked out the center and left portions leaving the right-side somewhat darker...............................Jim
Jim, the repost works better for me. The mids look a tiny bit flat, so might look at a TK narrow mids mask. It doesn't need much. I like the color and the shapes of the schrooms.
--P