Some old photos I bought at an antique store, because I buy old photos... I'm funny that way.
Some dried vegetation that skewsme always has around... she's funny that way.
A luna moth that inserted itself into my windshield wiper and died... he's funny that way.
Put it all together and you have a Victorian scrapbook. I had to do the b/w treatment because in color it was too obvious how bad the lighting and focus was.
mix ingredients on a black photo album. use tripod for long exposure in poor light. set iso to 200 and aperture to 4.5 (should have used a narrower aperture, duh). multiply the red channels to black and white. use curves to bring out some highlights and increase contrast. colorize to sepia. sharpen to taste.
The title: this feels like a page from a scrapbook commemorating a summer of a young woman, a summer in which she lost some things and found others.
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I knew this was yours, but that didn't affect my rating -- I gave it a 9 anyway. :P
I liked the B&W for this, because an old scrapbook would have had black pages and b&w photos. And the slight sepia gives it a feeling that the subject is black and white, not just the photo. Partial saturation might have been effective for the flower, but then it wouldn't have been your image. I like the composition and the light.
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