A shoot rarely goes exactly to plan, especially when working with children or animals. While photographing the dog here, my idea was to create a shot with water drops flying out from the dog’s head at all angles. But it proved tricky to get the dog to play ball, and even when I managed to get a usable shot, it didn’t have the scattering of water drops I wanted. However, I did have other frames from the shoot were the dog wasn’t right, but the water drops were plentiful. As such, I could piece together the drops and the dog to craft the shot I wanted.
It’s about augmenting the in-camera results to improve the image in such a way that it looks natural. When we have several similar shots…