02-22-2011, 12:25 AM
For whatever it may be worth - I think your painted backdrop looks really good. I also think the advice offered make sense. To summarize my take on it:
1) stay with a painted backdrop instead of a picture - it ought to be far easier to color match paint to foreground and other backgrounds later than to color match pictures taken under different lighting conditions. I also like the softer focus you automatically get with painting, compared with a picture
2) Lose the car on the backdrop - it is far smaller than the building, and between us and the building, so our brains keep expecting it to "move" leftwards relative to the building as we move rightwards along the fascia. That is not so marked for the tree, since the other tree in the foreground serves that function, and trees anyways have a less regular shape, so it is harder to notice that the perspective doesn't change as much as it "should".
3) Do something about the corner (as you have planned to do all along, since this is a test, not the final product). I like the suggestion of moving the sign to help cover the corner (and provide a 3D object that draws away attention from the building).
No matter how you do this, I suspect it will look great, as always!
Grin,
Stein
1) stay with a painted backdrop instead of a picture - it ought to be far easier to color match paint to foreground and other backgrounds later than to color match pictures taken under different lighting conditions. I also like the softer focus you automatically get with painting, compared with a picture
2) Lose the car on the backdrop - it is far smaller than the building, and between us and the building, so our brains keep expecting it to "move" leftwards relative to the building as we move rightwards along the fascia. That is not so marked for the tree, since the other tree in the foreground serves that function, and trees anyways have a less regular shape, so it is harder to notice that the perspective doesn't change as much as it "should".
3) Do something about the corner (as you have planned to do all along, since this is a test, not the final product). I like the suggestion of moving the sign to help cover the corner (and provide a 3D object that draws away attention from the building).
No matter how you do this, I suspect it will look great, as always!
Grin,
Stein