Revenge
 

A short how to.
I have added a B&A so you can see how i more or less went about it. I did as much as i could in camera and at the time i couldn't find a garden to my liking. it was taken two years ago and edited the other week as I had some time on my hands and i also found the garden i wanted to use :). I did an edit back then but it never worked due to the background i used. So don't just throw anything in and make do, it doesn't work as I have found out overtime.

It was a four light setup. The main light in this image was the one @ camera left and slightly behind her. The rim light @ camera right was set a lot lower as i wanted to create a rim but not overpowering the main. The other two were to the front for fill and to create highlights.

Post was mainly D&B, colour balance, Inverted surface blur for detail, added a painterly look using reduce noise and high pass, added a sky, garden, wasp, smoke and birds, added the tip of her finger on her left hand, removed sticker on plant pot and just did some free style to add the overall look i wanted at the time.

Hope this is of use to you.

Revenge
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5533/9...09ba2368_z.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5503/9...96518e93_z.jpg

wow, it is amazing how different it looks from the original, just by doing the crop, it looks like it is taken from a different angle, clever work, well done, thanks for adding both images to let us see before and after.

Thanks for that insight.