My husband is holding the roses he gave me for Valentine's Day, now quickly dying. A t-shirt is laid over the back of a chair for the background. Natural light is coming in through the window behind the camera.
Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance; saved as 16-bit tif. Tone-mapped in Photomatix Pro.
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layer- before tone mapping: selective color to darken the blacks; curves for the hand; brightness/contrast; burn on the top right corner
layer- after tone mapping: masked off all but the roses, stems, and leaves
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