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War of the Roses
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February 22, 2015 Traveller

2nd place
War of the Roses

Shot with my 35mm f2 prime, 100 iso, f5, 1/60sec. Flash, 580EX working off camera with a variety of bounce cardboard, (gray, brown, white, etc, one for background, one white or tan card to the side for reflection...damned if I know...lol...about 12 inches from the subject, Canon T4i)


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Canon Image Challenge26-Feb-2015 13:40
I know I referred to refractions when in reality it is specular highlights duh on me. Here is the thing, if you use a sheet of vellum between your flash and the image you make your light source larger and will create long smooth specular highlights rather than small points of light, soften the shadows further and you'll kill all those little spots of light on the rose stems. BUT I can see I'm in the minority so I'll BUTT out. ;~} Paul
Canon Image Challenge25-Feb-2015 08:51
But I agree with db, it is too jam-like...I may try again. Traveller
Daniel Bollag24-Feb-2015 13:40
On the «Catch Lights» in this image, I do agree with you, Traveller. Sorry, Paul! ;-)) db.
Canon Image Challenge22-Feb-2015 22:25
I thought about this Paul, pulling out the Spectral Highlights, but it is, I think, like Catch Light in the eyes when you shoot a portrait...if you pull the Catch Light out, the eyes suddenly become dead and un-life-like...dripping blood should glisten, I think...though honest people can honestly disagree I suppose.

BTW, the roses are in a small miniature rose bush I bought on an impulse at the .99Cent store...lol

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge22-Feb-2015 21:49
I'm going all in on this entry. My only tweak would have been to use the healing brush to kill the small light source light refraction's in the red paint. Nice work! Paul
Canon Image Challenge22-Feb-2015 14:43
Such a fun, well thought out, and very well executed shot. The composition is excellent, as is the lighting.
I like it a lot.
And, as db says, the title is perfect.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge22-Feb-2015 14:31
It is a mixture of a children's paint set I bought for a previous challenge as well red food coloring also purchased for a previous Challenge....but food coloring is virtually black when applied...panic, shake plant to get food coloring off, then dilute, won't stick to rose petals, then combine with the finger paint...sigh...won't pour...ladle on, but it does drip...shoot 49 times, figuring out lighting, flash, flash bounce...

I am actually reading The War of the Roses at this very moment, published in October 2014 by Dan Jones, (The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors) as a follow up to his better book, The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England.

Hey, this is what I do, read and take pictures...lol (but yes, the movie was very, very good also).

Best Wishes, Traveller
Daniel Bollag22-Feb-2015 13:05
That's an interesting image, Traveller: Less because of the technicalities you mention than due to that intriguing and disquieting blood-red jam... I like your historic as well as cinematographic title too ;-)) ~ db.