Elena-Shumilova, photography of her children on their farm.

[Musicman]

Grahame, other more experienced guys in the thread have suggested some of her images are composites, and if this is true then she absolutely is creating what wasn't there.

I thought it's fairly obvious that at least some of them are composites.

For example

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-c...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-14.jpg

and

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-c...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-15.jpg

both have the identical water ripples, just that one of them is a horizontally flipped version of the other.

In the first of those two, the perspective shifts a bit between the foreground and background, as if the surface of the lake were folded slightly upward.

There are some other similar apparently mismatched perspectives (cat on the fence + child dancing in tulips; child standing on the lake shore at dusk).

Besides, I'm not sure if my first reaction upon seeing my 6 year old balancing with the front half of his feet over the edge of a lakeside jetty would be to take a photograph.

 

[ghoti]

I thought it's fairly obvious that at least some of them are composites.

For example

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-c...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-14.jpg

and

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-c...l-children-photography-elena-shumilova-15.jpg

both have the identical water ripples, just that one of them is a horizontally flipped version of the other.

In the first of those two, the perspective shifts a bit between the foreground and background, as if the surface of the lake were folded slightly upward.

There are some other similar apparently mismatched perspectives (cat on the fence + child dancing in tulips; child standing on the lake shore at dusk).

Besides, I'm not sure if my first reaction upon seeing my 6 year old balancing with the front half of his feet over the edge of a lakeside jetty would be to take a photograph.

There are also snow scenes on her flickr where people & animals are walking away from the camera leaving impossibly undisturbed snow in their wake.

Still, better than I could do by a few orders of magnitude. I like to think I'd have dealt with the snow tracks problem but the seamless blending and light matching would be beyond me.