Riverside Park

The day after I returned from Japan, I did a shoot here in NYC with Jasmine, who was visiting from Boston.  On Jasmine's suggestion, we did a shoot in Riverside Park where the trees were just going into bloom.  I got some great photos using the spring foliage as a background.

In processing the pics afterward, I made the lighting more dramatic through the use of third-party Photoshop plug-in filters (see below).  On the other hand, in the pic above, I created a composite effect by selecting the model's face and figure (which had been greatly underexposed) and making a number of lighting changes to the selection while leaving the background, which had been correctly exposed, intact.