The model was photographed in the studio On a white background. Prior to the session the lighting positions were considered in order to give the impression of a sunset positioned to the right of the model. Admittedly the first concept was for this sunset to be in this position but the final background image chosen had the sunset positioned to the left relative to the photograph. A direct light was placed at a low level in order to have the position of the sunset. A fill light was used to bring some of the shadow highlights out. The background was lit so that the white seamless paper was exactly white in the representation. Consideration was made as to where the shadows and highlights should be in the photograph.

The location scene was an old wheat/rice field that was at the entrance to a new housing project. There are a number of cars, with typical wholesome American families (kids included) driving by this area at all times of the day. This fact does not make it ideal to place a nude model, kneeling on her hands and knees, in all of her splendor. This picture was taken about a month before the image of the model, because of the way the sun was playing with the plants. The location image was flipped horizontally to match the studio image of the model. The color and contrast of the two images were adjusted to be complementary.

The most important focus of the image is the border where the two images meet. Most of the good image editing software that is available will have utilities to make this area smoother. A majority of the work that goes into these images involves a lot of manual blending to get these edges close to perfect . The lighting and blending are most important to an image such as this.

When all is said and done the image looked a little plain with just the grassy field behind the subject. An old wooden fence was placed in the scene. The fence was photographed about the same time as the grassy field and was duplicated to produce the image as in is seen in the final form.

There are quite a few other techniques that are helpful to give the photograph depth and a better grasp on reality. These include selective focus and atmosphere, to name a few.

The main focus is that even if the image of your dreams is not or can not be produced with your available resources, you can still stretch reality to produce a memorable and unique image. Below are a couple of images that also have been achieved with the help of altered reality. No matter the length and breadth of your imagination, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!