About the Image(s)

Here you have my photo of December in this group. In this case, it is a nude photo in studio with, as you can see, a very flexible dancer.
Technically, this pic was taken in studio, with two flashes with rectangular windows placed behind the models at 45 ?. For the capture, I used a Fujifilm GFX 100 S camera with a 32-64 GF lens (f 6.4, 1/80 s and 400 ISO) without tripod. The reflection and the water were added when editing the original photo.
Regarding my processing flow, I followed my usual steps: I started using Capture One for general adjustments; next, I used Photoshop to reframe the capture and to copy, paste and horizontally flipping the right arm and leg of the model, in order to achieve a perfect (and yes, not real) symmetry. Afther this, I selectively applied some Nik Color Efex filters (pro contrast, detail extractor, tonal contrast and paper toner) and used luminosity masks to avoid an excess of bright or too dense shadows and to selectively process by colours (e.g., saturating green area of the photo before converting it in a monochrome version). Moreover, I used dodge and burn technique to enhance lights and shadows where it was needed. Last, I used frequency separation to improve the sharpness of the photo.
Once I had the “basic” photo, I duplicated it and flipped it vertically. Then, I added a crop of a lagoon photo, playing with the opacity of the layer. As I am not an expert in this kind of photo compositions, it took me much more time than expected…