I know, a flower in a Free Study? Am I crazy? It's been a really busy, stressful month, so I didn't get out much to shoot. My mom gave us this nice Christmas Cactus and the flowers are really pretty, so I dragged it down to the basement.
I shot this with a black mat board background and a single small desk lamp lighting it from the left and behind. I used a 13mm extension tube with my 50mm 1.8 lens.
Post Process:
convert from RAW
crop
resize
levels to select background as black point
bumped the saturation ever so slightly
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USM
cloned out a couple small spots on the flower
selected the stem and turned the brightness down
stroke
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