These are two incredible costumed models, the Rose sisters, I photographed in Venice during my annual carnival workshop. In Photoshop, I meticulously selected the women with the pen tool and removed them from their original surroundings (which were a street scene) by pasting them into a Russian palace. The first version of the composite was horizontal; to make it vertical, I used 'generative expand', one of the new AI tools in Photoshop, and extended the area of the ceiling and the floor. I then used the gradient tool (going from 'white to transparent') to add the beam of light emanating from a window on the left. My settings for the interior shot of the palace were 1/125, f/1.8, and 1600 ISO, and I used a Sigma 14mm wide angle for the shot. The reason why there is no keystoning -- the angling inward of vertical lines typical of wide angle lenses -- is because I made the back of the camera, i.e. the plane of the digital sensor, parallel with the plane of the columns and the rear wall.
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