Wandlebury Country Park with the Camera Club

Wandlebury Country Park with the Camera Club

Met up with a number of Cambridge Camera Club members at Wandlebury Country Park to look for Fungi and enjoy the autumn colours. We certainly did that. Not as many fungi as last year but we did find some nice examples. Met up with my friend Phil so ‘coffee and cake’ happened :)

According to the Woodland Trust there are over 15,000 species of fungi in the UK. I think this is a Common Conecap Mushroom.

Brandon Country Park Fungi

Sue and I visited Brandon County Park twice in the last 10 days to photograph Fungi. Last week we met up with the Cambridge Camera Club. Neither of us had a good photographic day, I only had one in focus (just) and that serves me right for trying something new.

There are a few iPhone photos here too. The rest are all focused stacked with my Canon R plus Helicon Focus Tube. 

The tube is programmed by the iPhone as to what lens on what camera at what f stop you want to use. I typically have the Canon 100mm L Macro lens and use f/5.6 Its a 10 second job to connect the phone and change the aperture and or lens.

I used my new tripod. I have reverted back to Manfrotto 190xpro4. My three Legged thing now resides with Sue. I found around the house over lockdown when I needed a tripod I used the Manfrotto and not the Three Legged Thing. It was not carbon fibre so quite heavy. as I just get on with it so well. This one is a carbon fibre. 

I lit the Fungi on some photos with a small Godex LED Matrix mounted on a 'Small Rig Arm'  - just to lift the shadows under the Fungi

Most of these Fungi are from 30 stacked images. I used a Neewer interval timer so I did not have to count the number of shots. The Helicon Focus Tube is not 'fast' compared with say the olympus but with Live View enabled and focus peaking selected I can watch the focus tract across the object. If it has not travelled far enough then I shoot another 30 and stop it when it looks like being in focus at the end. 30 shots only take typically say 20 secs, depending on the shutter speed. I set the tube to focus from the nearest point and travel towards infinity.

Images loaded into Lightroom and then stacked using Helicon Focus. 

Wandlebury - Tree Views

 I just love trees and whilst I was walking around looking for Fungi I took these shots.  I processed them a little different to normal.

Wandlebury - Fungi

 Hunting for Fungi - spent a great morning with Ann and a few others from the camera club at Wandlebury last Wednesday looking for autumn colours and fungi. Not entirely successful but most enjoyable.

Sandringham Fungi

Sue and I look our new camper van off to Sandringham this past weekend. We have only had the van since the beginning of October so this was our first outing. We arrive on Saturday and set up and played with the van. Sunday morning we got and decided to go for a walk around the area. we were not going to stay on the site as such but we found these glorious Fungi.

I have spend a little while trying to identify the types with little certain success. The red ons below are I think, Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria. Whatever they were called I think they are very beautiful and highly poisonous.