NIKON D800 + NIKON AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED

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Delicate,There's so much that can put your life into a tailspin.And it sometimes feels, the more insignificant a thing is, the harder it might actually hit you.I know that these little boxes are not all that matters.That the numbers, the likes, the attention are not all there is and they shouldn't be capable of turning my emotions inside out and upside down...But you know what? Sometimes...They are.It's much easier to say 'I share for me,' or ' the numbers don't affect me.' but let me be honest and say, knowing that the work I put out there, can reach someone else, might touch, someone else, could affects someone else....That's a powerful thing..I love to have these places, to meet, to exchange, to connect, to grow, to inspire, to 'like' someone else's work and to have mine 'liked' as well.... And you know what else? I'm finally learning, I'm ok with that.I shot this portrait of my daughter at night in our living room. At night, the only available light is our lamps, I had her standing near our front window, with her face upturned toward the lamp. I adjusted the exposures first in Lightroom and then exported to Photoshop, next I masked her face and brushed down the exposure around her to darken everything to remove the texture of the curtains and blinds.Next I then took an additional image I had previously shot of a rose, I expanded the canvas using the crop tool and then overlay the rose, setting the blend mode to screen, lowering the opacity to about 75 percent to keep everything soft and keep from loosing too much of her face.