Above is the image Ogura-san and I ended up submitting for the hair style photo competition I originally discussed here. What do you think? He wanted to make it a little bit different from a typical color photo of a model so we played with a lot of different ideas. Simply making Alina black-and-white ended up being the most visually appealing.
That’s not to say there wasn’t extensive cleanup on the hair, face, and other areas of the image. Separating the girl from the background was time consuming, including making the holes in the hair on the top of her head still show the background through them. Some parts of the image weren’t in the photo and were made from parts and Photoshop tools. I’m still no photo editing expert but I think it turned out OK. Wish us luck!