Well I've seen an influx of photomanips around here recently, and although they were good, I thought they were quite basic with just some retouching and colour changes (mostly). So I decided to have a go at something a bit different.

 

 

 

Browsing through deviantart, I found this stock, which I liked very much.

 

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After about 2-3 hours of ideas, redrafts and experiments, I finished with this.

 

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I'm still not 100% happy with it, and I'm looking for some advanced critique and comments, so help me out guys, it's what you do best.

It loooks a bit.. out of place..

 

 

 

Like, why would a guy be pointing his gun at the sand? And the feet are just.. weird..

Looks good, but you should have him in a karate suit kicking a guy and shoving a sword down the other guys throat... Err... too violent. =P.

Well as for the manipulating you did a pretty good job. Everything is cleanly cut and so on.

 

As for the manip. its self, it's not exactly my thing, and I'm left with an over all feeling of... wtf? Not necessarily a bad thing haha, its just odd. :wink:

I thought they were quite basic with just some retouching and colour changes (mostly).

 

 

 

Thats a big part in the process of manipulating a photo, making something look real after manipulating it is pretty hard if you dont want that others see it has been cut out. And when you do cut something out, you have to do it right all at once.

 

 

 

About this photo:

 

Its very creative indeed, you included lots of different factors.

 

I personally think the whole frame would look better if it wasnt rotated, but thats easy to recover.

 

 

 

Like navy said, its a bit odd. :) Keep it up though :thumbsup: