The warrior

[windrider86]

This photo was taken last weekend during a super hot day at my Santa Fe Trail Festival. It took me 2 days to make this one. I wont go into allt he steps but will give you a brief outline.
First I cropped the indian and pasted as a new layer on top of the sunset. Masked it off. Then found an old picture of some buffalo and wen into effects and did i think media effect-find all edges. lowered opacity and place din the sky. duplicated several times to make them appear to be running accross the sky. Painted several faint layers of the sjy color over the Indain guy to try and get him to match. Then the orton effect. slight vingette.Slight disge and burn. selective saturation boost

[charlotte thompson]

I like the background effects very much
the indian for some reason seems a bit to placed dunno hmmm gotta think more on it though
why is his arms left with original flesh color
maybe the head dress/feathers lightened a bit with out the indian
just a thought-

Charlotte

[windrider86]

Thank you for your comments. The placement was intentional as it was supposed to feel kinda like a dream. perhaps i need to rethink it?
I wasnt sure what you meant about his arms being left flesh colors? I did destaruarte them and then also did an overlay of the sky color. Do you have a suggestion that might work better?

[charlotte thompson]

yes

as I said in my reply
what you might think about is just using the head dress as the main focal instead of the whole indian and to light the head dress a tad because I love the background- as the head dress would be different statement as opposed to the whole of the indian
a diffrent spirit/ way of cummunicate the idea

Charlotte

[indigoboo]

The problem is the lighting of the two different shots. Your background clearly has the sun at eye level in the distance, but the person that you have placed in the scene looks really unnatural to that scene because the light is clearly coming from overhead and/or behind. The eye/brain does not adjust well to two suns being in the sky.

[Father Bob]

I think the headress in front of the sunset is great.
Can't really see the running buffalo.
In my opinion, the cactus intereferes with the headdress. The line of sight gets all messed up.