Photoshop plunge...

[Sebastien B]

Hello,

Here is a composite I did last week, I am kind of happy with the result.
What do you think?

Seb

[Yoyo Szeto]

Hi Seb,
This shot is full of irony. You use PS to elaborate a man struggling on the glass rim with a PS book as the ground. Your PS technique is good.
yoyo

[bobbythebandit]

Excellent work and Yoyo is right.I too like the irony here, a glass on ps and he could either fall of or in as most of us do when working with PS.
Bobby

[shesells]

Heh.. good one seb.. and so true. Nice compositing. smoothe
Kit

[almo]

That is awesome. Seamless. Only thing that gets me is the dark corner, but it doesn't ruin it. Really this is quite awesome.

[Sebastien B]

Hello,

Thank you for all your kind comments, this composite was really fun to make, I am glad you enjoy it.

Thank you

Seb

[thapamd]

Oh, I like this on, Seb! Great job, shadows and all. Very creative and well thought out.

[Trevor Ash]

I guess I'll chime in here. I enjoy these kinds of photographs very much. Yours is definetely a creative example and is a pleasure to view.

I've spent a fair amount of time compositing and doing things liek this too and have learned one important lesson along the way. To pull it off well, It's all about lighting, shadows, and consistency of them both between elements in the composite.

To improve your future composites (which I very much hope you'll create more!) pay very close attention to the shadows of each "element". Notice that the shadow from the glasses "lip" is actually pretty much straight down below the lip. That's the point that the person's shadow should have started, not the actual glass lip, but on the shadow of the lip. Also note the hardness of the shadow on the person compared to that of the glass.

These are just a couple examples that immediately strike out to me as a flaw. They don't take away from the creativity at all, but to be fully immersed (made to believe) in these types of photos requires careful planning and detail.

Another example of some improvement would be to add very slight, sublte shadows directly below the feet where they touch the glass. This is a common trick that helps add realism to the effect. When I say slight, I mean slight though....perhaps only 1 pixel wide and not too dark toned. Do you notice how it looks like he's floating on the glass? Adding that little shadow will have the effect of "anchoring" himself to the glass. Give it a try.

It's all in the planning. Great job though! Let's see some improved work now

[jar_e]

I like it. Very neat concept and well done!