What editing was used at this picture?

Mostly good lighting, very small aperture.
 
ISO50 and keep making the Aperture smaller until the sky is that tone.
 
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I agree. The 'editing' I see here is mostly skin smoothing on the model. The sky, sun & overall exposure are a result of lighting and light control.

The first thing to notice, is that the sun is in the frame, and while it is 'blown out', it's not too far gone and the sky is still fairly dark around it. That tells me that a low exposure was used...as mentioned, a low ISO, a fast shutter speed and a small aperture (higher F number).

The next thing to notice, is that the sun is behind the subject (in front of us), anything we see, probably should be a dark silhouette...but it's not. That tells me that something is lighting up the front...probably a reflector (or several) or a flash...and it would have to be a very powerful flash because of the small aperture required to help keep the sky dark.

Of course, you can locally adjust the sky to be darker & more blue, but you have to avoid blowing out that detail (too bright) in the first place.

The more I look at it, I'm even considering that this might be a compilation of different shots...one of the sky & sun, and one of the model, sand & grass.
 
The more I look at it, I'm even considering that this might be a compilation of different shots...one of the sky & sun, and one of the model, sand & grass.

That may be the case too. Also, the shape of the sun doesnt look like it was taken with very small aperture. Usually it is shapped like a star?
 
ISO50 and keep making the ISO smaller until the sky is that tone.

I can get that sky tone with ISO 800.

I mistyped.. I meant keep lowering the aperture.

I am assuming they use strobes not continous lighting (and also reflectors) so youll need the lowest ISO you can get to keep the shutter below sync speed.
 
The more I look at it, I'm even considering that this might be a compilation of different shots...one of the sky & sun, and one of the model, sand & grass.

That may be the case too. Also, the shape of the sun doesnt look like it was taken with very small aperture. Usually it is shapped like a star?


It has to be a small aperture as the grass, girl and foreground are all in focus. the larger the aperture the smaller the DOF. the lens flare I feel rules out a composite picture
 
A good blalance of ambient light and flash.
 
It has to be a small aperture as the grass, girl and foreground are all in focus. the larger the aperture the smaller the DOF. the lens flare I feel rules out a composite picture
Yes, it has a fairly deep DOF, which would mean a smaller aperture. Also, if this is not a composite, a small aperture would likely be needed to fight the sun. So I'd also rule out a wide aperture.

Lens flare, on the other hand, can easily be faked...although this one looked pretty good.

I was having a closer look at the grass. With a strong back light like this, I would expect more highlight, halo & bleed through on the grass, but I wasn't seeing it. :scratch:

I am assuming they use strobes not continous lighting (and also reflectors) so youll need the lowest ISO you can get to keep the shutter below sync speed.
You can get around the sync speed with HSS (Auto FP) and shoot at any shutter speed you want.
 

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