Frosted Lipstick

Gallery: FloraPosted January 8, 2016120 views5 comments

From the common name of "Lipstick Lichen" for these. This is a small section of the fence post of my last post at pretty close to minimum focal distance.

5D3, 180mm f/3.5 macro, tripod and cable release, f/32, 0.8 sec, iso 200, aperture priority, pattern metering. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Slight crop for composition. Taken at 9:02 on January 3rd.

Your comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on January 9, 2016 at 5:25 AM

Yeey, lichens! Lichens are ridiculously underrated I think, but once you start to look at them they are so beautiful. This cladonia is no exception, and I like the frost on som of them as well.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on January 9, 2016 at 8:35 AM

Pretty cool Dennis. I rarely run into these lichens and they offer some brilliant colors to the eye. It is fairly sharp, but you are at the limits of the rules of physics with limited DOF and some diffraction at f32 and near life size image. I would try stacking images taken at f16 instead of at f32. Other than that, I like the image as it is very colorful and has an abstract composition to it.........Jim

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 9, 2016 at 12:59 PM

You are taking a licking when your liking of lichens is lacking without stacking! sad

Colorful and different, but I agree with Jim. May I recommend Zerene Stacker? Not particularly expensive, works well and fast and you only pay for it once. Also the updates are free!

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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on January 10, 2016 at 12:27 AM

What a great catch, Dennis! I don't recall ever coming across this sort of lichen - what a beauty! Is the red tip the fungus and the rest the algae? Clearly a challenge, but I think that you got good detail on the red tips, and a reasonbly detailed background.

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on January 18, 2016 at 5:57 PM

A very nice looking ans interesting photo Dennis. I see these plants for the first time, thanks for sharing.

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