Hi guys,
At the risk of attracting thunder and lightnings, i hereby submit the process used to edit one of my images, captured during my recent trip to Tenerife.
Visiting and trying to spot along the coast with bad weather is not always very productive image wise. I visited numerous little spots around the coast, not always with great light, or during the best hours.
Since i really enjoyed the rocks and water dynamic of Garachico i decide to shoot during the day and eventually capture the sunset elsewhere to blend it later in post-prod....
It is not something i usually do but i have seen so many people using it, if executed smoothly it's sometimes worth the try....even if it is cheating somehow :-) (the title says composite)
What do you think :-) ? --> Shoot :-)
I don't mind composites. It's your art. Post the image and let the viewer make their own determination. With that said, I think you need to put a similar sky cast on your water. The colors don't blend well between the two images. Take that sky, invert it as a layer, and put it on soft light blending over your water/ground at maybe 25% opacity with a 50ish pixel gaussian blur. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks Ryan for your feedback ;-) I already did that but you are right the water close the horizon doesnt match the scene, i ll keep working on it ;-)
Not the easiest thing but i believe the transition is now smoother :-)
This is good. I wouldn't have been able to tell this is a composite.