Fabulous Fun Fungi Foray – Simple Fungi Photography Tips with Your Phone

Michael Blyth
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Five Simple Tips for Photographing Fungi with Your Phone

Use the light of late autumn for Simple Fungi Photography. When the leaves fall, more sunlight reaches the woodland floor — perfect for revealing texture and colour
Enjoy sunny days. Low, golden light brings fungi to life and adds warmth to your images.
Look, don’t touch. Some species are toxic, so photograph without handling them, and always wash your hands if you do.
Flip your phone. Turn it upside down so the lens sits close to the ground — it’s an easy way to capture dramatic, low-angle perspectives.
Experiment. Move around your subject, try side-light, back-light, and different viewpoints. The more angles you explore, the more character you’ll find.

Warning: Never eat wild fungi unless identified by an expert, also wash your hands when you have the opportunity

Fungus Photography tips

A beech tree reveals a multitude of fungi to practise photographing

A short trip to the Netherlands provided a multitude of images to use for my Simple Fungi Photography Tips.

I hope you don't think I'm overdoing this type of 'tips' but fungi do provide a fabulous and relatively easy source of amazing subjects to photograph - for practise, for art, for identification, and for the awesome beauty of these 'fruiting bodies' linked to the huge underground mycelial webs.

If you want to know more about the fungi, to supplement the interest of the photography, may I recommend : 'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake - you can click through this link to get a copy https://amzn.to/4hPA3zU. I will get a small commission if you do, which would be great!

A few of the fungi I found during my autumn walk in the beech woods at Boekesteyn Nature Reserve. Each one demonstrates how such beauty, but to be fully appreciated you need to pause and look closely; the heart of every Simple Photography Tip.

Golden-brown fungi rising from a fallen tree stump surrounded by autumn leaves — **Large orange gilled fungus on a stump:** possibly from the *Gymnopus* or *Armillaria* group

Orange yellow mushrooms grow on a tree stump among fallen orange leaves in a forest. The setting conveys an autumn mood. Copyright text visible. — **Golden caps on a stump among leaves:** possibly **Honey Fungus** ***Armillaria mellea***

Cluster of small brown mushrooms grow on tree bark. Earthy tones dominate the scene. Text: © Michael Blyth Photography. — **Tiny pale fungi on tree bark:** could be a young **Oysterling** ***Crepidotus***

Clusters of purple fungi and spore-like growths on a decaying log in the forest — **Folds and purplish blobs on decaying wood:** may be a mix of **jelly fungi** like *Ascocoryne sarcoides*

Classic red-capped toadstool standing among green moss and pine needles in autumn woodland - Amanita Muscaria — **Classic red toadstool - Fly Agaric** ***Amanita muscaria***

Two small pink fungi growing from the bark of a tree in a Dutch beech wood — **Delicate pinkish caps on tree bark -** these resemble ***Mycena*** sp

Orange fungi growing on the end of a mossy fallen branch on the woodland floor — Small orange white shelf fungi on decaying branch

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Fabulous Fun Fungi Foray – Simple Fungi Photography Tips with Your Phone

Five Simple Tips for Photographing Fungi with Your Phone

Use the light of late autumn for Simple Fungi Photography. When the leaves fall, more sunlight reaches the woodland floor — perfect for revealing texture and colour

Enjoy sunny days. Low, golden light brings fungi to life and adds warmth to your images.

Look, don’t touch. Some species are toxic, so photograph without handling them, and always wash your hands if you do.

Flip your phone. Turn it upside down so the lens sits close to the ground — it’s an easy way to capture dramatic, low-angle perspectives.

Experiment. Move around your subject, try side-light, back-light, and different viewpoints. The more angles you explore, the more character you’ll find.

Warning: Never eat wild fungi unless identified by an expert, also wash your hands when you have the opportunity

Fungus Photography tips

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