I am assuming this is some sort of fungi. It is growing on a willow leaf and most of the other leaves were covered in similar colonies. At first I thought is was a waxy secretion from some weird scale type insects, but as soon as I looked under magnification I knew I was wrong. There are crown shaped, spiny, white formations growing out of some of the larger darker spores. They were difficult to define against the network of threads of the same tone below them.
This is the first time I can remember having blown yellows. The small yellow spores were almost featureless under normal exposure. Blown highlights are something photomacrographers try to avoid because you cannot extract details from those areas. I see blown reds occasionally and usually drop my exposure a bit and de-saturate that color in the Adobe Raw Converter enough to restore details. A similar tweak on the yellow worked here.
Nikon D810, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x on a 200mm Micro-nikkor, diffused electronic flash, 190 exposures, Zerene.
Steve
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Re: Fungi
Excellent image. If I am right they are the sexual fruiting bodies (chasmothecia). I could see the thread like structures around the fruiting bodies. Which may be appendages or ascus. Unbelievable I have always studied them looking through a microscope. Nice imagesvalley wrote:I am assuming this is some sort of fungi. It is growing on a willow leaf and most of the other leaves were covered in similar colonies. At first I thought is was a waxy secretion from some weird scale type insects, but as soon as I looked under magnification I knew I was wrong. There are crown shaped, spiny, white formations growing out of some of the larger darker spores. They were difficult to define against the network of threads of the same tone below them.
This is the first time I can remember having blown yellows. The small yellow spores were almost featureless under normal exposure. Blown highlights are something photomacrographers try to avoid because you cannot extract details from those areas. I see blown reds occasionally and usually drop my exposure a bit and de-saturate that color in the Adobe Raw Converter enough to restore details. A similar tweak on the yellow worked here.
Nikon D810, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x on a 200mm Micro-nikkor, diffused electronic flash, 190 exposures, Zerene.
Steve