Failed pictures. (Patreon)

Even when I have the perfect framing on a model, I tend to turn around her to check different points of view.
Sometimes I find in the background some of the distracting elements I moved out of the way just minutes before (like in this case).
When in doubt I still take the shot, for confirmation, I could always clean up the background if I feel it is worth it.
But this picture of Martina is a single frame in a long and successful sequence, the only discording picture, and it didn't convince me to change plans.
After this one off try, I went back to the old position and made some more variations on the successful theme and the side lightning.

But today I wanted to show you this failed picture, to explain my tentative way of working, and because Martina is really beautiful, even with some mess in the background...

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