About the Image(s)

This rose was shot indoors using a combination of natural ambient light from a large window and an LED light diffused through a white umbrella. My camera was on a tripod with settings of ISO 100, shutter speed of 1/10 sec, manual focus using a Lensbaby 56 lens. These lenses don't retain f stop setting information on the file and I forgot to write it down, but I think this would have been F 11 for the sharp detail.

Edits were as follows:

Lightroom - I needed to remove the part of the clamp holding the stem. I increased exposure and opened up shadows.

Photoshop - I expanded the canvas/background to give a little more room around the flower.

Topaz Studio 2 - I added 3 filters - a texture that applied all of the different colors, the Smudge filter to play with the overall texture, and a Gaussian Blur filter. All were in normal blend mode but with varying degrees of opacity applied.

Added the thin blue stroke around the image in Photoshop.

Original 1 is straight out of camera. Original 2 is after Lightroom edits and expanding the background in Photoshop.