Love this one i must try this type of lighting later in the year
Nothing hard in this shot.
Found grape vine tendril.
Went out at night with a flashlight, camera, and flash.
Used the flashlight to have enough light to auto focus.
Turned down the flash intensity very low.
Backed up to increase depth of field as I'm shooting at night and didn't want to do a long exposure (it's winter and cold) at a tighter aperture for the increased depth of field.
Used a paint brush in post to cut the tendril from the rest.
Painted/cropped out the rest of the tendril and vine to get just what I needed.
Here is the untouched original.