Copy & Paste

[Preeb]

This is a composite of 2 images. The background photo was taken at a beach party. The foreground is a portrait of a friend taken a couple of days later. He is also in the background photo. Any and all comments welcomed.

EXIF:

Both photos shot with Canon T1i and EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS and processed in Elements 10.

Portrait:
f4
1/50 sec
ISO 200
37mm

Background:
f8
1/160 sec
ISO 200
17mm

[windrider86]

Anything in particular you want help with???????????????????????

[crockny]

I like it - he seems underexposed though ...

[Preeb]

Guess you could have a point. I will probably have to lighten him up a bit more if I decide to print it (his image is on a separate layer. so it's easy to adjust). I think it's more the difference between him and the background than it is a true underexposure. The background image was hard because of the almost pure white sand beach (I used exposure comp to underexpose that one and still had to darken it more in post). I dialed that one back quite a bit to get rid of most of the clipping, then just brightened him up a tiny bit so that he would stand out from the background.

I was mostly just fooling around when I did it, so coming up with anything usable was a surprise. I may play around with it some more. We're going back to the Island in 3 weeks, so I may take a print down to him.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[Krusty79]

Looks good to me. The only nit-picking thing I would say is that I would consider scaling him down a little bit so there is some "breathing room" between his left hand/neck of the guitar and the gazebo.

[Preeb]

Originally Posted by Krusty79

Looks good to me. The only nit-picking thing I would say is that I would consider scaling him down a little bit so there is some "breathing room" between his left hand/neck of the guitar and the gazebo.

That's another good idea. I'm just starting to get the hang of making a composite like this, so I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

[Barry Jackson]

Looks like a pretty good composite but I would add one more step.

Take the blur tool set at a small brush size and go along the edges of the foreground image.

That will make it not have quite so drastic a transition.

[Preeb]

Originally Posted by Barry Jackson

Looks like a pretty good composite but I would add one more step.

Take the blur tool set at a small brush size and go along the edges of the foreground image.

That will make it not have quite so drastic a transition.

Thanks for that suggestion too. I'll give that a try the next time I get a chance.