Welcome to the new year. I was playing around with a few items and to be perfectly honest it didn’t pan out, until I switched them to black and white. This makes sense because it was a heavy mix of shadows and lights.
The original concept was light coming in from window hitting the subject and the flower (fake, fake flowers are awesome) However, the harness I use to secure my fake window and the fake window I use were in my storage unit, so I had to use a small plexiglass piece and secure it in a less secure manner which just didn’t end up panning up. The light did reflect through it though but the gel I was testing out didn’t quite work once I got back to my desk to processing.
This happens and the two things you can do when it does is first learn from it and see what you can salvage from it. In this case, I learned quite a bit, I have lots of notes to carry into the next practice session, but I was also able to salvage it by grayscaling it. Never assume you will luck out though, sometimes will have nothing but a lesson and that’s okay as long as you are willing to learn it.