Heavy is the Crown

[Olivia and Rose]

I know this is photoshop heavy, but I fused my Cleveland skyline with a portrait shot I loved to represent the sad day in Cleveland after "The Decision"

[Niresangwa]

this probably belongs in the processed critique forum, and there's a requirement of adding the EXIF data on critique posts. Just sayin'.

That said it doesnt particularly work for me. It's got the grunge look which in this instance is too heavy handed. It seems to be at a weird angle - the cityscape that is. The melding of the cityscape element feels a little clumsy in as much as you can see where it was just dropped onto the original image, its orientation doesn't fit that of the head, and if you hadn't told me it was Cleveland, I would have had no idea, nor why it was important.

The concept was imaginative, but the execution of the image just doesn't match that. Creating composite images such as this one is always a gamble as to whether they will work out and be engaging, and in order to give yourself a good shot at it, the technical application needs to be flawless. In this case it wasn't. Neither component is particularly clean, and the fusing is messy.

sorry man!