A great composite that captures the spirit of the competition! The color scheme is works and the whimsical placement of elements serves the composite well. In the spirit of always improving, the two issues I see for future improvement: 1) The background buildings are not necessary and removing them would put more focus on the subject of your image, 2) The clouds look "rendered" which detracts from the composite. Either use more realistic clouds or simply leave the sky blue. Often with a composite, the last step is to "kill your darlings"—get rid of the things that aren't contributing to the image. But overall, really well done!
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Awesome color scheme! And the compositing work is excellent. Where it falters for me is that it lacks any focal point and so I lose interest rather quickly. The light ring on the right seems to break the pattern, but doesn't otherwise have much relevance. A single "version" of the woman looking at the life ring might have done the trick. Or one of her looking at camera. But as a composite—excellent work!
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Crop, crop, crop. The compositing work is really good! But you have a lot of background "nothing" that isn't contributing to your image. I'd suggest either replacing the background with something more interesting, or cropping closer and adding some blur to the background and some vignette to the foreground. Love the animal!
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Photoshop (and other image editing software) has allowed us to create images that are impossible to capture in camera. From the beautiful to the bizarre, composites created from our own photos allow us to unleash our imagination and creativity! From a portrait of Lincoln composited in the 1860s to the Cottingley Fairy photos of 1917, photo manipulation has existed for as long as photographs have. And in February of 1990, when Adobe released the first version of Photoshop, compositing images became available to any photographer with a computer. Fast forward to today, and you will be hard pressed to find any photo in the media that hasn’t been manipulated or composited in some way. We want to see your imagination unleashed. The rules are simple: at least two different photos, solely taken by yourself, must have been used to create your composite. Give us your twisted, dark, bizarre, beautiful and whimsical! We want composites that would be impossible to capture in camera.
