This is the result of a Photoshop exercise in masking and refining masks. The woman tossing her hair is superimposed onto the background image.
Hair is difficult to capture in digitally. One approach is to select the pixels based on color, then add it to the more easily selected areas and create a mask to block all the unwanted areas of the image. I selected this background, because her thin arms echo the sculptural roots in the background.
It was a great pity to obscure the background image. It is an actual art installation by Steve Tobin placed in "the Morton", a 1,700 acre site in Illinois devoted to the conservation of trees and plants. 
The sculptures are in steel. The sky is so beautiful that one can wonder if it too was added behind the main object or if Illinois is just that beautiful!
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