Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!Buy Tickets 9am-1pm Foray
Foray with the aim of taking the best possible photographs and making high quality collections for future mycological research. A crash course in iNaturalist will be given once we reach the field. Photographs will then be captured using the equipment each participant brings. Alan and Mandie will be hands-on in the field, teaching participants how to choose mushrooms worth collecting and how to set them up to display the important features for identification. We can help them get the best quality photographs with anything from cell phones to professional cameras. Advanced skills such as focus stacking techniques and UV photography will be utilized whenever possible.
1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch and Travel to the Classroom
Participants will be responsible for coordinating their own travel to/from the field and providing their own lunch between the foray and the classroom.
2:30pm - 5:30pm Image and Specimen Processing in the Classroom
When participants start to arrive at the classroom (between 2:00-2:30) Mandie will help them process the voucher collections and post their observations to iNaturalist. All of the samples from this event will be sent to Mycota Lab for DNA barcoding. At Mycota Lab in 2025, we have an open call for Colorado mushrooms. So additionally, participants will be instructed about how they can contribute all of their Colorado finds for DNA sequencing for the duration of 2025.
Alan will give a one hour mushroom photography talk and lead a classroom-based workshop instructing participants how to post-process and combine images to obtain crisp, clear, colorful and scientifically useful photos of fungi from the morning foray. The two software programs we will teach are Helicon Focus for image stacking and Photoshop for general photo editing. Participants will be encouraged (but not required) to bring their own laptops, so that they may follow along in class, and process their photos with help from Alan and Mandie.
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