Second attempt at photomanipulation

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

February 29 2012 09:47 GMT

Greetings all
Maybe some of you may remember my previous attempt at photomanipulation. Well, I think I’ve come quite a distance from that time. May I present to you my latest work!
Inspired by my trip overseas and the dream I had there (If you haven't read the blog entry, here's a nice novel)

Original image used
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The final product

Ascension of the Spectre - DeviantART

Hope you like it! All credits are on the dA page. Big thanks to sawdragon and empty, master artists and good friends. Leave suggestions, if you guys got any, for my next piece!

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Previous attempt at photomanip
empty on dA

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Oldfool

Australia394 Posts

February 29 2012 10:31 GMT

Much better than your last attempt. The blending of the structures with the grass in particular is much better done!

However I did notice a few things about the image I felt were a bit out of place:
- There is a black pixel-height horizontal line across the image, it looks too obvious to be accident, what is it?
- The lens flares are clearly lens flares and don't match the evil dark mood of the image, was that the intention? It feels like they are supposed to be creepy-red-glow-y eyes, in which case the lens flares are a bit out of place imo. You may have more success placing them on a transparent overlay layer so you cant remove the flare rings and keep the main glow eyes.
- The right-most grass weed on the well is rotated slightly such that it looks very much comical - possibly mess with colouring (darker, lighter hues) effects rather than only size, rotation and focus to add some variety to the plants.
- The stream is a little shabby around the edges but not noticeable without close inspection.

Overall lighting is still a point you can definitely improve on, with everything seemingly lit from different directions. A small point on the lighting of the stream- the reflections should be darker, seeing as you have a night setting.

Of course these points are only relevant if you intended for realism.

Josh-FiveO

Denmark174 Posts

February 29 2012 12:50 GMT

To me it just looks odd. I don't know what, it just looks damn odd to me...

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

February 29 2012 12:58 GMT

On February 29 2012 21:50 Josh-FiveO wrote:
To me it just looks odd. I don't know what, it just looks damn odd to me...

That's pretty much because of the lighting. Adding all this stuff to an existing photo and changing it from midday to midnight pretty much means the lighting is going to be weird. Unless you REALLY know what you're doing.

nekoconeco

Australia359 Posts

February 29 2012 13:15 GMT

Not bad, for a second attempt it is really good.

I think the main reason people think it looks odd is that it has some strange inconsistencies with lighting which make it look like you took a day scene and put a night sky on it. One of the simple things you could do to improve it is to make it bluer. If you look at painting of night scenes like this http://www.oilpaintinghk.com/paintingpic/0820d/-Oil-painting-Night-on-the.jpg you will notice how much blue they use.

Here is an example of it with more blue:

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