I liked the elegant diagonal lines along the leading edges of these rose petals.This shot was set up in my kitchen. I bought roses at the my local grocery store and bungee corded one of them to a small light stand. The dark background is a black vest suspended from a coat hanger behind the rose.
The soft light almost directly above the camera is provided by one of those new screw-in florescent light bulbs mounted in an inexpensive aluminum clamp-on reflector purchased at Home Depot. In addition to having the light close to the subject (maybe 18 inches away), I gaffer taped a piece of white printer paper across the face of the light fixture to act as a diffuser.
The way it looks here is pretty much how it looked in the camera, except for a bit of added contrast, vibrance, an edge vignette, and some selective high pass sharpening along the leading edge of the biggest rose petal, all done in Photoshop CS4.
The original image was shot from a tripod, using a Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8L lens (at 200 mm, F/8, ISO 100, in manual mode and manual focus) with a Canon 500D close-up lens screwed on the front of it.
-CGTTL
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