I love coming here and posting images. I think it's been about 6 years since I posted here the first time and in that time I've really fallen in love with photography. Now I have a question...

I noticed that some of you thought that this picture posted yesterday was created in Photoshop.

I like the photo because of its colors and the composition. I felt like it had some impact and to me, it's a great moment that was captured... not created in a computer.

The problem is that if people see it and think it was put together in photoshop then it loses that impact. It's no longer a real moment but just a computer graphic.

Here are some outtakes from the shoot.

The blur or outline around parts of the dress and her arms is a result of the shutter lag and her movement. The flash freezes the movement but I left the shutter open a little longer to better expose the sky resulting in some blur.

As for the position of her feet... I can't help that. That's where she was really standing.

My question is, should I crop her out in photoshop and move her lower so that she appears to be more realistically on the ground? And, should I remove the blur around parts of her silhouette so that it doesn't look like a bad cutout?

I think it's funny to have to go in and make so many changed to an actual picture so that it appears real but at the same time, it's not really a good picture if it looks fake.

What would you do?