Amanita Muscaria - Fly Amanita

It took some time to set up the tripod at just the right place. The Camera was practically sitting on the ground and so was I. Thankfully I didn't need to turn the camera upside down this time to shoot so low because the hill slope is very steep there.
I almost fell and kissed the ground. The leaves are very slippery there Oh and the mushroom smells nice and stinks like toxic waste at the same time. I can't explain it it's just a weird smell XD.

Technical stuff:
Shot quite a few jpg's 1 stop apart at f7 to cover all the brightness levels and get large depth of field.
HDR, Picturenaut for HDR assembly, HDRShop for white balancing, Picturenaut Photoreceptor tone-mapper with tone-mapping settings turned off (just used it to apply a higher gamma value to brighten the shadows and export it as 16bit tiff), Photoshop Curves for selective tone-mapping