What about my lightening skills now ?

[Hytham]

Hi

I need your feedback about this work...I meant that the size of Messi may look bigger..what about colors/lightening/shadows ?

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[hershy314]

Looks good, but what's with the black area around the sky? Not sayin it's bad, just curious.

 

[Hytham]

The black area around the sky is from the original photo..I note it..but i couldn't handle it

 

[Inkz]

It's hard for me to tell which way the light source is coming from.

Judging by the shadowing of the trees, the light source is somewhat directly above. But the lighting and shadowing on the player says differently.

 

[Hytham]

It's hard for me to tell which way the light source is coming from.

Judging by the shadowing of the trees, the light source is somewhat directly above. But the lighting and shadowing on the player says differently.

mmmm...I considered that the light is coming from behind the trees..so i made the front-left side of the player is darker..and there is a small spot of shadow under him "in front of him"....but there is shadows on the left down area of the ground...it doesn't made by me too..

 

[Inkz]

Here's a quick guide mate...

Obviously the white is your lighting direction and the black is for the shadowing.

 

[Hytham]

Thank you Inksz for your replay..but excuse me..why you added shadows for trees ?...I used this photo:

http://imgs.mi9.com/uploads/landscape/4154/beautiful-nature-hd-landscape_1280x800_71905.jpg

I didn't change the light source...so I think i should keep tree shadows without modifications.

and as you show the lights cover the right side of the player and ball...I did nearly the same idea but maybe I need to make lights and shadows harder ?

 

[Inkz]

It's a pre made background mate...

With sky and foregrounds stocks used to create a final image. I can tell by the way the trees have been cut out.

 

[MattMiller]

It is a good start but as mentioned it needs a little work to fine tune it and allow the lighting to have a clear source and clear angle of impact upon the main object and or person. I would work a little more on it and if need be just make one side of the person a little dark than what it would be realisticly but not so far that it looks unrealistic get the right balance.