COMMENTS:

Kenneth Deitcher, MD, FPSA	Very well done image of surfer. Your combination of images and the use of Content A ware was exceptional. The use of the colorful wave in the first was a great choice.
Elaine Icklan	Excellent job of cut and paste. Good location of main subject. Except for a couple of bright spots (top right) the tonality is very good.
Barbara Mallon	Nice shot of the surfer about to be splashed and fun with CS5. But I do not think the light works to combine these photos as you did. Maybe it is that he is too close. Perhaps if you put him in place of the other surfer. The dark hollow in the wave competes with him.
Carolyn Schlueter	Wow! I love how you incorporated two pictures into one and the waves are outstanding! Great photojournalism shot! I do see an aura of softness on the surfer's right arm (as we are looking at the picture) and the only thing I would do is clone in more of the beautiful blue of the wave closer to his arm and also under the front of his surfboard as some of the green from the picture you took him from shows and the ocean is predominantly blue in your finished photo. The "Fill Contain Aware" sure does an amazing job of extracting. You have created an exciting story!
Adrienne Bergen	Nice job of cut and paste Tony. I don’t know what “fill contain aware” does or how difficult it is to use, but the more impressive wave certainly makes the image more interesting. I am not a surfer, and I wonder if this surfer has an unnatural posture for the wave you have interfaced him with. The original surfer was on the edge of his board creating that spray behind him. The surfer you placed in the image is more relaxed and upright and I doubt that he would have created that type of spray as a trail.
Tom McCreary	A great job of adding a good surfer to a good wave. By combining the best of two images you made a very good surfer image.

 

Member Bio

Tony Tam - Biography I am 72 years old. I retired 1.5 years ago.  Before I retired I was a mechanical engineer.  I attended college St. Petersburg, Russia (Formerly Leningrad, Soviet Union). Photography is my major hobby for my whole life.  I started my photography when I was about 8 years old when I was in elementary school.   Because my father owned a photography studio I had a chance to learn photo development skill in a darkroom from my early childhood.   I continued my photo hobby in high school, college and now. After I retired I got more time to do my favorite photography.  I had a lot of photo trips with my friends. I use a Camera Nikon D200, D90, and Sony F707.