Voted earlier, coming back to comment now.
How cool! Very neat idea! Love the idea of the flower being a floating island and the yellow center cascading down like a waterfall to pool into the one petal. The composition has much potential to jump out of being just good to great if some elements are strengthened. First, I would get rid of the border - it does very little to compliment the composition; rather it detracts from the illusion the flower is a floating island or oasis. Next I would recommend a bit of layering and blending to make the flower more flush with the surface of the water. The lighting is off in the composite. The water, boat, and sky are all darker than your main subject. Lighting on the main subject or backdrop has to be even for the two to go together as one. I highly recommend that you take the pictures roughly around the same time of day. The much harder way is to play with Gamma RGB, dodging & burning, and Shadows/Highlights/Midtones adjustments but that might prove very difficult to achieve the very same or close too similiar lighting conditions. The waterfall is good but can be better if you feathered the selection more so that there is more a even transition from yellow center to the blue flow of water. The petal has a natural scoop that you could very easily select some blue water, feather it to avoid hard edges, and fit it into the petal using layers so you can erase what goes over the lines. The two boys can be selected from the scene with the crashing waves and then placed into the petal pool. To me, the bee really adds nothing to the scene as that I see the strength of the imagery lays in the magic of the magnolia being an island playground. |
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