Past their prime

My wife's anniversary roses have served their purpose and have seenbetter days, but I wanted to play with some new lenses and lightingbefore they got thrown out.

This shot was lit with a Sunpak 544 flash at 1/4 power fired into areflective umbrella handheld somewhat above and to camera left. Asheet of white styrofoam at lower right provided some fill. The doorin the background was lit with a bare Canon 430EX at 1/8 power fromback camera right at handle level. The shot was taken through my41-year-old Nikon 50/1.4 lens mated to my Canon DSLR body. Compared tomy other fast 50mm lenses, this Nikkor is huge, not quite as sharp,and has a long minimum focusing distance, but it's still worth the $20I paid just for its old-school aesthetic value.

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