Model in Seoul, Korea

I took this picture in Seoul, Korea on the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace. My model was a young lady who worked at the hotel I was staying in, and she helped me rent the traditional Korean attire. I used a small pond for the reflection, but there was aquatic vegetation floating on the surface of the water and it didn’t look good. It was out of focus and pretty messy. So, I used the Photoshop plug-in Flood to create a much more attractive reflection. In addition, th beautiful maple tree in full autumn color was growing about 50 feet to the left. It should have been behind the model, but it wasn’t. So, I moved it for ‘artistic’ purposes by cloning from one picture to another. I took this in 2002 with the medium format film camera I used back then, the Mamiya RZ 67. The transparencies were scanned by an Imacon Scanner. I used a 250mm lens (equivalent to a 135mm focal length in the full frame digital format). The settings were unrecorded, but I used Fujichrome Velvia 50 film.