Hey @ryanben2 – neat mushroom! I don’t often take pictures of mushrooms, but I just noticed some large ones in my yard so this makes me want to go out and try to get a cool picture of them. 🙂
Two things strike me right away when I look at these pictures: there seems to be quite a bit of grain in the pictures, and you’ve got some blown out highlights. I like the composition in your first picture better than the second one – it looks a bit more artistic at that angle.
What kind of camera do you have and what were your settings you were using? Were you shooting in manual mode? Did you use flash or is that just the way the lighting was?