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    Roman Kurywczak
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    I always tell people that they need to work an image.......this is from 7 hours of working this flower. I am going to post the black BG (my favorite) along with the high key image(Susan Candelario's favorite)......to show how I tried different approaches with the same flower
    Black BG.... indoors....laptop case as BG....natural diffused light, Canon 1D Mark lll with the Sigma 180mm macro and the MT 24 twin lights @ -1&1/3 and f32 for 1/80 sec. at ISO 800 HH.
    White BG same camera set-up except outside pointed at sky......3 stops over exposed (on purpose!) at f13 for 1/100 sec. at ISO 800 and flash at +1.
    I also have this against a green BG (natural)....but hope you get the workflow process!

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    Here's the high key look

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    How about the post-processing, Roman, anything you did to get to the final images?

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    Hey Desmond
    I'm quite a bit old school....as little as PP'ing as I can do. For the black BG.....I used a selective color layer for the BG......to get it really black......not much after that other than a bit of levels and I used Robert Amoruso's LCE trick to boost contrast. On the white BG......even less......the 3 stops of overexposure ensured the sky was pretty white (it was the blue sky from previous post w/clouds) but the flash bought ou the details in the flower. I don't think I used the contrast boost in the white BG.......as I wanted to keep it a bit more subtle. This was all done in camera!
    Hope this helps.

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    LOVE that black version! I'm sure the high key would be really impressive in a large print as well but the drama of the black BG puts this one over the top for me. I thought in the opening image the other day (with the blue BG) that the flower looked very "alien" and the black seems to bring that out even more. I can see this whirling through space, can't you? :D

    Out of all three BG's the black seems to set off the pink the most. Outstanding image, and wonderful series, Roman.

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    Both are great images! I prefer the one with black BG, but never imagine that it will look so good on white BG!

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    I'm certainly glad they were asked for! :)

    Both BG's look great but I prefer the black.

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    I like both the black BG and blue BG about equally. The white BG makes the flower look too dark IMO. Very nice series, Roman. :)
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    By far the black bg Roman. Lovely image!:)

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    Great example of the effect of different BGs. This is such a stunning flower that I would add contrast and a bit of color to the one with the white BG to make the flower pop more, as in this example. I know that is not what you were going for. I like both the black and white BGs, with the blue being my least favorite, but still excellent.

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    Thanks all....black was my favorite too!

    Hi Anita,
    I did try that myself and like it.....but as you said ....this time I tried to keep it a bit softer. Your re-post shows yet another direction you can take when trying these!

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