Tylopilus felleus, a Bitter Disappointment

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited September 26, 2015 in Holy Macro
During a search for mushrooms in our local woods, I though I had found one for dinner, one of the edible Boletus. I didn't have my camera with me so I picked it to take home.

Looking at the stem, I saw a coarse network of raised sculpturing. At least it was going to be a good photographic subject. The species was the Bitter Bolete Tylopilus felleus, not edible due to its bitter flavour.

I placed the whole mushroom on a wooden bench and took some photos. For the close-ups at 2:1 I used my Printing Nikkor setup* with triple flash. Fro the whole-mushroom shots I detached the two small flash guns and placed them, on their individual stands, on either side.

I have posted two images of the tubes as, even at f11, the undulations do not allow the whole field to be sharp. Each shows different detail as sharp.

The salmon-coloured bruising in the fifth image is diagnostic.

*The setup is shown in the last image of this set.

Harold


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