From: norsgerm@a...........   
      
   I have a slow dial-up. The pic is great but slow. Someone earlier suggested   
   tinypic.com. Free, fast, and with not so many bytes, everything but a spore   
   print.   
   Are you selling something¿   
   Kurt   
      
   "Frederick Burroughs"  wrote in message   
   news:126oq4943lg7v7f@corp.supernews.com...   
   > The mushrooms are growing in leaf litter at the edge of the woods near my   
   > yard. The mushroom season is still considered early in my region;   
   > mid-spring. Gills are crowded. Stalk is hollow. Spore print is cream. I'm   
   > thinking some kind of Gymnopus/Collybia.   
   >   
   > The photographs use a relatively recent technique. High dynamic range   
   > (HDR) photography uses the exposure bracketing feature found on many   
   > digital cameras. Multiple frames of the same subject are taken at   
   > different exposures. Software merges the multiple frames into a single HDR   
   > photograph with a higher dynamic range than a single exposure. The purpose   
   > is to more closely approximate the dynamic range of human vision; See:   
   > http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/   
   >   
   > I used an HDR software program called Photomatix. (You can see the   
   > watermark of the trial version in the photographs.) My digital camera was   
   > mounted on a tripod to take 5 photographs of the same subject at different   
   > exposures; See: http://www.user.shentel.net/riburr/mushroom051706.html   
      
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