"Very nice use of flash (and WB). It isolates her from the background very effectively."

"I did a selection of the dancers (using the pen tool), then set a layer mask with that. I also added a glow using Blending options->Outer glow. Played with contrast in Photoshop. I made the background look more diffuse by making a copy of the lake image, Gaussian blurring it about 20-30 pixels and blending it above the original layer with "Overlay" blending mode."

"Yeah this doesn't make all that much sense, I guess it's like gigantic dancers standing in a lake or something. Anyway it's a composite of a photo of dancers from a recent performance at Cantor ("Rewired") and a shot of Lake Tahoe I took a while ago."

"Requirement 5: Non-photorealistic Combination"

"Shorter focal length to get a full body shot. Background was underexposed a bit to draw more attention to the model."