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Sunburst lichen bloom
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Sunburst lichen bloom

by Ry Birge

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted February 24, 2018913 views2 comments
I found this sunburst lichen growing on the bark of one of our peach trees.  Their blooms are about 1/16 "in diameter.
Lumix zs 19
SS 1/125
ISO 400
F 3
Handheld

Comments

2 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on February 27, 2018 at 6:45 PM
This is a great shot of this group of lichen, Ry.  The details in the clump are great and you got them isolated well from an interesting background.  I'm not familiar with this lichen  so the colors could be fine, but am wondering if there's a bit too much saturation as the greens and the reds have a "glow" that I associate with how Adobe's software adds saturation to darker tones.  I routinely dial back the green and yellow saturation slightly to get what I think are more realistic colors.
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Comment posted by Ed Williams on March 19, 2018 at 2:56 PM
The details in the closest lichens and little cup fungi are really great Ry. I like the faint outline of the tree trunks in the BG too.  This is a situation where you might want to think about stacking multiple shots, if you know how to do that (I don't), or trying a bit smaller aperture to see if you can get a bit more DOF.
Registered on December 28, 2010, 636 Posts, 3499 Comments