On the first day of spring here in Melbourne, Australia, one of my David Austin roses was just starting to bloom, so what a good excuse to get my gear out.
As you can see, I am not really a fan boy – I use whatever equipment I have that will do the job, in this case, a Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera with Olympus ZD 50mm f/2.0 macro lens and a Canon Ring Flash in manual exposure mode at ISO 100, f/14, flash output at its lowest (1/64th).
Although the rose was a gorgeous apricot color with pink tinges, I decided I would prefer to concentrate on the delicious tonings, curves and edges, and only conversion to black and white would achieve this.
Minimal post-processing otherwise.
