Standing out

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The story of this photo:
A few weeks ago, I uploaded my first serious macro photo (titled: Four in a Row). While that was the first photo I uploaded, it was not actually the first macro photos I processed, which would be the one you see here. Those blossoms are tiny (just about 2mm insize). This is the stuff that is put into a bouquet of roses to give it a bit more volume and contrast. The red background are actually dried roses.

How it was shot:

• Taken with a tripod
• Single exposure
• Camera: Nikon D7000
• Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm 1:2,8G VR
• One speedlight with a small softbox to the left and slightly behind the blossoms to give it some backlight.

How it was post-processed:

Standing Out - Before-and-After (click to enlarge)

• Post-processing was done in Photoshop
• Topaz DeNoise
• Topaz Details for bringing out the details and for some basic color correction
• Some retouching to remove distracting dust particles etc.
• Curves layer for more contrast
• Vibrance layer for the orange and red/magenta tones
• Saturation layer (master)
• Slight vignetting [details]

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