Another glowing mushroom. This time around the workflow was a little more complicated.
What you see here is a composite of four different images, which themselves are focus stacks, stitched together by masking.
Affinity Photo:
All of these individual images a also focus stacks, done from 9 individual bracketing shots each, so 36 shots overall.
I put some orangey-yellow ellipses over the mushroom and the snow in front and blurred them with a gaussian blur of >1000px. Setting this to the Glow blend mode and adjusting the opacity gives a nice adittional colored glow to the image.
Capture one Post Processing:
What you see here is a composite of four different images, which themselves are focus stacks, stitched together by masking.
Affinity Photo:
- Underexposed base layer
- Backlit mushrooms (masked, no blending)
- Frontlit mushrooms (masked, 20% ADD blending)
- Light from above (masked, 40% ADD blending)
- Copy of frontlit mushroom (masked for snow in front, 49% SCREEN blending)
All of these individual images a also focus stacks, done from 9 individual bracketing shots each, so 36 shots overall.
I put some orangey-yellow ellipses over the mushroom and the snow in front and blurred them with a gaussian blur of >1000px. Setting this to the Glow blend mode and adjusting the opacity gives a nice adittional colored glow to the image.
Capture one Post Processing:
- Sharpening & Clarity
- Highlight & Shadow edits
- Color adjustments
- Split toning
- Gradient masks for exposure adjustments
. But yes, you have good composition here.
