About the Image(s)

I submitted a similar photo last summer, but as I work to improve on my still life shots I reworked this. I used my Nikon Z5, F/10, 1/4s, ISO 320 from 32.5 mm. I used an external light set at 4500KB, 75% intensity. As you can see, I did a lot of cropping. The intention was to give the photo an overall black and white look, but I wanted to keep the rose red. I use Photo Shop Express, and there is an option to turn the photo into black and white with a pinhole effect, but that did not work very well. So, I recreated the B&W pinhole manually by adding a vignette, slightly dehazing the wine glass, bringing out a little white on the bottle to show the reflection better, bringing out some black at the top of the wine bottle, and bringing out some white in the background. I did a little research on colors and black and white is considered a romantic color combination, which is why I chose to add the rose, where in the previous submission I had the cork from the bottle."