Models in Hue, Vietnam

My photo tour group here in Vietnam photographed two beautiful models today. Our first session was in front of the 19th century Imperial Gate in Hue. The girls were great, but the background was uninteresting and mundane. Backgrounds are just as important as subjects in making a picture work. So, I photographed one of the unique doors high up on the architectural design of the gate – a place forbidden for visitors to go – and then I made a precise selection in Photoshop around the models and pasted them in front of the new background. You can composite two photographs together that were taken with different focal lengths, but the lighting on both elements has to be the same. For the round door, I used a 100-500mm lens, while for the models I used a 24-105mm zoom.