Do pictures of mushrooms you first take always result in a mushroom watercolor giclee print?
C Ribet: Not many of the original pictures of mushrooms I take will make it all the way to become a mushroom watercolor giclee print. There are so many variables involved in just capturing a fine art mushroom photograph that it is always at least very hard and frequently quite impossible to get everything perfect in the field. Sometimes it seems impossible even to capture a body of reasonable pictures of fungi to begin with, and that is just the first step to obtain the original pictures of the mushrooms from which to ultimately make the final mushroom watercolor giclee prints. This is not a unique problem to making art giclee style watercolors of fungi or to fungi art in general. Whether as a photographer you are taking pictures of people, pictures of plants and animals, or pictures of mushrooms, you will always find that you arrive back home at the end of the day with great hopes and expectations, but you may often be disappointed! The advent of digital photography has made the entire process an order of magnitude easier than it has been traditionally with conventional film photography, but it is by no means certain that you will capture a scene's mood and composition as it appears to you when you are photographing it. When you are out taking pictures of mushrooms and fungi, all of the existing problems which the traditional film photographer encounters are still problems to surmount no matter what technology lies behind the lense to capture the light image. Pictures of mushrooms and pictures of fungi also present extra and unique challenges to the photographer. More...
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