Title: CLASSIC
This shot was entirely manual. After experiencing with Macro, I found out it might be suitable for a different type of lens, just not the the one I was using. Anyhow, manual is always my first choice since I can manipulate the exposure better.
Post-processing includes filling in more light, pushing the blacks a little bit more, and also pushing the grains to fit with the atmosphere of a black and white photograph
Title: “And love itself is just as brief as a candle in the wind. It is pure white, just like sin…”
Also shot in manual mode. Post-processing includes pushing the grains and exposure to produce a high-key photograph. This one is more conceptual than getting the exposure right. I got inspired by the song A love suicide to express the idea of a brief beauty, which is what flowers are 🙂
It seems most of us students had to use cropping since we don’t have decent equipment for macro shots XD
...with a thousand paper cranes 
Your gray scale image could use the black pushed a little more to get a pure black somewhere in the deepest shadows. The pink rose is a much stronger composition. It would be better if the depth of field were greater in the second image.