Before and After

I had a request here at Flickr for the workflow of this photo, and thought I'd post the original. Well, this is a different frame, but it shows her surroundings better.

 

The field behind her had looked beautiful in the setting sun, but had fallen into shadow by the time I got out of the car and pulled out my camera. So I tried to recreate in editing that warm glow I had seen seconds earlier.

 

Post processing involved extending the canvas, removing the car door, and adding some bokeh overlays I had shot earlier in a similar location. I always look at everything out of focus while shooting now and take shots for my texture folder whenever the light, colors, and shapes look interesting. I used 2-3 different ones with various opacities and blend modes, masking out parts that didn't work. On top was a blank layer that I just painted on lightly to blend it all together. I added a little noise to that layer so that it matched the rest of the image.

 

Looking back now, I think I like this frame better, and don't know why I started editing the other one first.

But as Dan Margulis says, there are no bad originals.

Done