Levend LichtjeI'm reposting everything from my old Instagram, to keep my archive and have a record of my work's development. I'm adding commentary below the original text.<br>
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This is from 2 June 2018<br>
Amanita muscaria. The yellow light turns red on the top, with lovely brighter and darker channels. Those are really hard to take good pictures of, so you will just have to trust my words when I say it's even better in real life.<br>
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Apparently, lights are hard to take pictures of -doubly so when placed under a glass dome. If the lighting isn’t just right, the camera will only capture reflections on the glass rather than the mushroom lights beneath it. But if the lighting works for the glass dome, it might be completely wrong for the mushroom lights. Sometimes, I just take two pictures - one with the glass and one without - then combine them in my editing software later.<br>
Even then, the lights never look exactly as they do in real life. They always lose detail. In reality, there are lighter and darker areas on the lights, with soft color variations. In photos, those differences mostly wash out. The good thing about this is that if you get one of the lights, you’ll probably love it even more than the pictures!<br>
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