On this episode of before/after, our main theme is compression.
Despite being in a very, very cramped shooting space, I try to shoot with as long a focal length that I can. That usually means getting my ugly floors and walls in-frame.
I always stress that I do very little editing on the people, they are already super beautiful. Most of my editing is getting the background as smooth/clean as possible, center the subject, and balance the color as needed.
In this shot, additional edits were done to just tidy up the ponytail a bit and even smoothen the scuffed soles. Got a request to get that boa all the way off the frame as well so it wasn’t floating.