FFSC 2023 Virtual Fungus Fair with Alan Rockefeller
Channel: Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz Video
Date: 2023-01-12

Mushroom Photography - How to take good pictures of mushrooms for beginners and advanced photographers.

Alan will explain how to choose mushrooms to photograph, how to get good photos with a cell phone, and the pros and cons of using a dedicated camera and macro lens. The second part of the talk will discuss advanced techniques such as focus stacking and image post processing.

Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist and mushroom photographer based in the bay area who has been studying mushrooms since 2001. He has now photographed more than 2,500 species of fungi and has uploaded over 700 DNA sequences of fungi that he has found to Genbank. He leads forays in California, the midwest and Mexico, where he has been studying mushrooms for 15 years and is fluent in Spanish. Alan is in high demand as an expert at mushroom fairs where he teaches workshops on DNA barcoding, mushroom photography and fungal microscopy and has published new species of bioluminescent Mycena and Psilocybe. Alan regularly identifies mushrooms for several fungus fairs in Mexico and the USA and has identified over 250,000 mushrooms on websites including iNaturalist, Mushroom Observer and various Facebook groups.