Well - this is an embarassingly bad imitation of Ursulas "winter blues". I expect this to do horribly but it was a great experiment for me as I don't take shots like this. I used my 50mm lens with one extension ring on it. Sprayed the flower with glycerin/water and set it up against a black back fdrop with two desk lamps shining on it from behind I think. The extension ring gives way too shallow DOF and getting any sharp detail on the petals was tough. Had I the lens that Ursula used I may have been able to come out with something a bit better. Of all the shots I took this one was the most pleasing to the eye (yeah the other ones really sucked). I hope not to have a new low score.
PP - RAW conversion with tweaks in everyting - color temp, exposure, shadow and highlight contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness and noise reduction. In PS - more of the same plus selective color tweaks, USM and NI several times, resize and border.
Adding in my tech details I see that my aperture is 0 but I am guessing that it is more likey 1.8.
One final edit - Special note to parents of small children - Glycerin USP ingested in small amounts by toddlers can cause diarhea.
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Very pleasing to look at. The purple in the back looks so soft that it's almost like a gas flame in shape and color. Good choice for the challenge, and I see that it did better than you thought it would.
So this one pops up, hmmmm, looks sort of familiar. I have a very similar image in my portfolio. :) Yours is lovely. The colour is fantastic, the purple pink just glows, almost like the colour of those glow sticks. Cool! If anything, the light looks a bit harsh. I like the composition very much. Did you notice that the drops on the front petal look almost like a face?
My daughter just came by and said, "Ooooh, that's pretty! Looks like one of your pictures, like the blue one." At least she knows my pictures ;-)
This is very pretty, but with the black background, I am not having quite as much sense of bokeh, but that might be thinking too narrowly, so I won't deduct for it. The vivid fuschia and wonderful light really adds to the shot. Great focus on the petals in the foreground, with the one oof, which I like. Good luck. It's good.
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