Just some mushrooms I spotted hiking in Sweden.

Canon Rebel T3 | F5.6 | 1/320s | ISO 1000 | 250mm

  • Jeena
    4•9 months ago

    Nice I like it, I wonder is it flashlight with a softbox or something? Somehow the light is soft. Or is it just luck that it’s very shadowy and dark behind the mushrooms?

    • @L3mmyW1nksOP
      5•9 months ago

      Just lucky. The vignette might be enhaced, but I’m not sure. I seldom edit afterwards, since I have a rather hard time with that. Might’ve just been with the slightly pushed colors of my old Rebel T3.

      It’s the natural lightning of light woods at 4pm in September. Probably was a bit cloudy at that time. The ground was covered with a thick and surprisingly soft layer of green and everything looked like this:

      And here’s another mushroom (this one definitely without any workings in post):

        • @TheEighthDoctor
          4•9 months ago

          It’s a Russula for sure, but I very much doubt it’s the Russula Emetica.

          Just red Russulas you have hundreds of them, it’s one of the hardest species to identify (when you exclude LBMs), good news is, to identify if they are edible you taste the gills close to the stem, if it’s not spicy it’s edible.

          • @[email protected]
            3•9 months ago

            to identify if they are edible you taste the gills close to the stem, if it’s not spicy it’s edible.

            You’re absolutely correct.

            Hence I added the “probably”, as identifying by picture alone is not at all precisely possible.

            I guess I should have added the spicy taste test. Just didn’t want to invite anyone reading this to go out licking mushrooms all willy-nilly. ;-)

          • @L3mmyW1nksOP
            2•9 months ago

            For how many groups(?) of mushrooms does the ‘try if it tastes toxic’ approach work? That’d definitely make things easier haha

            • @TheEighthDoctor
              3•9 months ago

              Unfortunately just this one that I know of.

              But it’s always safe to do the taste and spit test with any mushroom, I made a video for my colleges taste testing a death cap, I would post it here but I don’t want to show my face.

              Looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CvE6Q_3QjQI

              • @L3mmyW1nksOP
                2•9 months ago

                Well, would you look at that… Definitely learned something today!

        • @L3mmyW1nksOP
          2•9 months ago

          Cheers! I often wish to be able to identify and differentiate mushrooms properly. Free food! For the original pic I tried and got ‘close enough’. Very common stuff.

          Being fatter than any in all thode reference photos probably doesn’t count as an important property?

          • @[email protected]
            2•9 months ago

            Being fatter than any in all thode reference photos probably doesn’t count as an important property?

            As you’ve surely learned from the other thread, correctly identifying is rarely clear cut. There can be all kinds of variations, so no within a certain margin, size would only be a hint at best.