There really is nothing to this picture, but people are always commenting on it and asking how I did it. As the diagram below will show, it was just me, the model, and the sun.
What I think makes the image of interest to people is the post work that's been done to it. The exposure for the background was processed separately from the subject. I don't mean that the subject was placed into the shot later, I just processed the same image in two separate ways, then merged them in Photoshop. The image was exposed with an average of the sky and model. This way, when I opened the image in a RAW filter, enough information was present in the photograph process for the sky in version and for the subject in another. Then if Photoshop I was able to mask in the desired elements from one version into the other.
The original shot of this image the sky had the beautiful gradient that you see in it now, but it was an exceptionally cloudless day that day which I felt left the image looking a bit empty. So from a different image from a different shoot on a different day I took an image that had some nice clouds and blended them into this image.
What I think makes the image of interest to people is the post work that's been done to it. The exposure for the background was processed separately from the subject. I don't mean that the subject was placed into the shot later, I just processed the same image in two separate ways, then merged them in Photoshop. The image was exposed with an average of the sky and model. This way, when I opened the image in a RAW filter, enough information was present in the photograph process for the sky in version and for the subject in another. Then if Photoshop I was able to mask in the desired elements from one version into the other.
The original shot of this image the sky had the beautiful gradient that you see in it now, but it was an exceptionally cloudless day that day which I felt left the image looking a bit empty. So from a different image from a different shoot on a different day I took an image that had some nice clouds and blended them into this image.
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