VSCO and Camellias

I am playing with some filters on VSCO.  I will use these images both as references for paintings and a few as finished artworks.  The VSCO filters are very sophisticated allowing subtle changes to an image with slightly different exposure, contrast and color balance giving the photographer choices that would reflect changes in exposure, lighting, film, paper and processing in traditional photography.  I use their filters most often to create a b/w photograph that is slightly cool or slightly warm but am toying with the idea of printing one or both of these versions in color. 

The photo of the camellias above was taken on a white background and was slightly blue because it was taken in evening light with an LED sunlight balance fill light to reduce shadows.  It was a very simple set up outside of my studio door in West Monroe, LA.  The top image here is very close to the original photo. 

The camellias here were gleaned from a bush in the Garden District of Monroe, LA that produced these beautiful multilayered pale pink camellias.  All of the camellias that I photographed had already fallen to the ground.  After two weeks of collecting and photographing the camellias, I left a nice bed of camellia mulch around the azalea that I planted outside of my studio.