Thank you very much for your comments and kind words! And of course, thanks @roulin for the inspiration :)
Rob, the lighting was "accidental" as the shot was as well. I was actually going out of the house and grabbed my camera to go with me, but just before leaving, I noticed the flower and how it looked at that moment. It was on the table, in the vicinity, but not too close to a fairly large window with (usually) a lot of light. But the light was gloomy on that afternoon, and since the rose was kind of old and started to lose color as well, the whole scene just had a strange evening look to it. That's where I though of the roses in the "original" I saw before. So I tried, and I was surprised how low-lightishly it came out in the camera if you just focus on the flower. The dark on the top is a very distant wall in a deep shade, and it looks very dark in the picture. The shades on the flower on the right - just the deep shadows from the light that is falling from the window from the left. On the left, I tweaked it a bit - the bottom left corner also had very well lit petal, but for me, it kind of tipped the composition to one side. I don't have many editing tools, the only thing I could think of was the (usually very cheesy) dark vignette in the iPhoto. The three corners were dark anyway, and the bottom left part of it just covered that petal that I didn't want to. So, in short, very grey gloomy natural window light, pale colors on the flower and deep shadows in the room behind the subject. :)
Rob, the lighting was "accidental" as the shot was as well. I was actually going out of the house and grabbed my camera to go with me, but just before leaving, I noticed the flower and how it looked at that moment. It was on the table, in the vicinity, but not too close to a fairly large window with (usually) a lot of light. But the light was gloomy on that afternoon, and since the rose was kind of old and started to lose color as well, the whole scene just had a strange evening look to it. That's where I though of the roses in the "original" I saw before. So I tried, and I was surprised how low-lightishly it came out in the camera if you just focus on the flower. The dark on the top is a very distant wall in a deep shade, and it looks very dark in the picture. The shades on the flower on the right - just the deep shadows from the light that is falling from the window from the left. On the left, I tweaked it a bit - the bottom left corner also had very well lit petal, but for me, it kind of tipped the composition to one side. I don't have many editing tools, the only thing I could think of was the (usually very cheesy) dark vignette in the iPhoto. The three corners were dark anyway, and the bottom left part of it just covered that petal that I didn't want to. So, in short, very grey gloomy natural window light, pale colors on the flower and deep shadows in the room behind the subject. :)
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Thank you, Amy! It was a very flat-top rose, so the light just kind of rolled over it. I am glad you liked it.