Dereila Nature Inn - Naturalist's Nook


A handy little thing to carry around in your camera bag is a small mirror. It can help you capture hard to reach areas like the underside of mushrooms.

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Mirror shows the underside of the mushroom

It's often hard to see the underside of a mushroom, but the underside can be very important in the identification of some species. This mushroom is only about an inch high.

Your small mirror can help solve a couple of problems: one, seeing the underside and two, getting a photograph of it. Place the mirror so that you get a goof reflection.

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Go in as close as possible with the camera, frame the mirror and take the picture.
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After cropping the image, you get a reasonable photograph without having disturbed the fungus.


Here's another mushroom. With the mirror it's possible to get underneath the cap.
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Have fun experimenting!
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