Two into One

[windward123]

I have just been attending a course on learning photoshop and in particular layers. This image is from two of my own photos One was the deer reaching for the branch against a dull grey sky and the second was a sunset from Ardnamurchan. Just tried it as an experiment and was quite happy with the result but no doubt all you experts on photoshop wont be fooled. Being interested in wildlife photography I would never try to pass this off as a genuine photo
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/DSC_0065Red_Deer_reaching_for_tree_Final_copyTP.jp g

[sawman]

Well done Ken. Hope you are enjoying the course too.

[wilmorh]

:clap: excellent, i would have been fooled!

[Duckydoodle]

Good work :thumbs:
What course is it?

[foodpoison]

I was fooled until I read the blurb.
I thought it was fake, but didn't know it was photoshopped.

The only reason I knew it was fake was that while the deer was obviously shot with a telephoto, the landscape was shot with a wide angle.
And putting the two together just doesn't look right.
You wouldn't have been able to get close enough to the deer to take the shot with a wide angle, but you wouldn't have been able to get far enough away from the deer to get the whole thing in view, and there would have been other things that affected it, too.
Which I can't understand OR explain.

[oldgit]

Not bad, but as fpoision says the two are different perspectives. Also the "mid" ground is a little wierd

[windward123]

Thanks for all your interest. The course was just a 2 hour per week on basic photoshop Elements at the local college. The idea was only to replace the totally grey sky in the red deer photo but as the sunset was the only other photo I had with me at the time, I just had to make do with that. For intetrest, the sunset was not taken with a very wide angle lens as you would not have seen the Island which was miles away. It is the Island of Muck. The Red Deer picture was taken with a 300 lens but it was not far from the road side.