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work went into it, so that makes it a 2 on its own.
But that's where it end for me.
The scale is off. looking at the surfers and the motorbike rider, he's about twice as big of a man. So unless he's 3-4 meter's tall, it doesn't quite work, as he's not that much closer to the camera in this frame as the surfers on the left.
Lighting is off too. As you can see on the surfer on the far left, his face is being lit by a light source that's behind the photographer. So the sun is somewhere on the right and behind the frame.
While the motorbike is lit by a light source that is pretty much straight above him or even slightly behind him as he is being back lit a bit and all the highlights are on the tops of the surfaces.
It's not like a composite like this can't work or look cool. but matching lighting and scale are 2 very important things to get right