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Published: 2004-04-13 04:31:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 3183; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 625
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lucky strike.friend and fellow deviant, janina .
photograph of janina taken by gil leora .
used with permission from janina .
photograph of landscape by me at the kodak theatre on hollywood and highland. other elements created in photoshop.
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Comments: 47
This just looks so 3D. Love the detail you put in this and Janina looks amazingly amazing.
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great manipulation! and i love the photograph of janina! 
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Cool "laugh at all the little people" you got to make it big in la la land
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i kinda miss that city! I spent a lot of time at hollywood and highland while i was living there.
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heck, if i knew you were that close i would have hung out with you while you were in town.
H&H is five minutes from my house.
just saw grindhouse at the mann 6 the other night.
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This is one of the most original photomanips I've seen in a while! I love it!
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wow she is very tall, i mean those other people look like ants, hehehe, i think it is constructed very nicely. great work
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Took me so damn long to figure out what the hell was going on here, Looks like she is either floating/sitting on a rail outlooking the city, then I took my second glance and my god, fucking awesome work. I really love this concept, Love the burnt colors, the shadows are done amazingly well, are near her right foot is a little weird looking, it seems a bit too sharp. But this is a truely amazing piece of work, and you have inspired me.
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Thank you so much for your kind words. I had hoped to do a series like this but have not yet found the time to continue it.
Work 60+ hours a week. Bummer.
Thank you again.
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Man, this is a great pic. The manipulation is flawless, the color are nice, the model is hot and her pose is excellent.
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Thanks.
The model is Janina . She a cool chick you should check her stuff out.
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Thank you so much. It's good to hear that and I'm flattered.
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Very cool idea...
I looks like her right foot is sitting a little on top of everything... I know you've added the shadows behind, but a shoe dosen't really sit "fluch" to the ground... Try using the burn tool just where the shoe meets the sidwalk to give it a little more depth...
And maybe take a little of the yellows (they're are very slight) out of the white on her sweater... The whites in the city scape are tinted blue just a little, so it makes her stand off more...
The colours overall are so rich... Looks like a poster for a movie...
As for the model shot itself... I love the pose and expression on her face. And the overall clarity.
Nice work
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nice work just at first glance looks alittle believable but i think the model should had some shadows done on her. because shes to bright. overall nice job and concept. what could of been cooler.. is like since shes bright have the background be night time and have the night lights go on .. and make it seem more bowling alley type..
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very nice, little confusing but I bet in front of a print that would go away. luv it!
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awsome photography you got going on here. I couldn't complain about anything +fav
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this is a great vibrant colours
admire your concept..
great work man
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that is a great photomanip, looks like a regular photo
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awesome job!! she looks so natural sitting there bigger than everything else. great job making it fit so well together. your friend is pretty hot too, heheh
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this is kick ass man, good to finally see some people from california round these parts.
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the light doesn't match but fuck off it's very cool
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Totally wicked and great.
First off, Janina, DAMN! And the pose is great too!
Second, the integration looks virtually flawless, except that I'm confused by the setting around her left foot. My guess is that it would have been better cleaned up there with some clone tool over the background shot, cause that appears to be the only dubious cue to me. The foot would just look better all by itself, as an undubious "anchor" of her placement within the scene. On the flipside, you appear to have done a marvelous job getting her shadow on the ground beneath right.
But third, here's the "magic bullet" that really makes this whole come together soooooooo well for me. It's that in several areas of the image, her scale looks completely realistic, and thus the "fantasy" is all the more visually enthralling. Here's what I mean: look at the top half of the image, from about the backs of the chairs upward. With focus on this section, the city looks like a completely realistic backdrop behind her, as if there's nothing awry about the scale at all. Then add to this that the rightward building in the foreground looks completely as if it could be a piece of office furniture in correct perspective to her own seated position.
These create enough "fitness" to the whole composition that the ultimate thwart is all the more strong and impressive - the eye vascillates between seemingly realistic and blatantly unrealistic, and makes it, to my mind, absolutely the most successful of these you've done. (Great job on coordinating the lighting, incidentally - looks pretty flawless to me.)
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Look great.
Nice balance and composition.
I like the color too.
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This caught my eye because I've moved a lot, and sometimes in a new town this is how I feel. There's this town sprawled at my feet when I first begin to explore. I feel both planted in it and detached from it at the same time at first. Right now, that means a lot to me, because I'm finally starting to consider Cleveland my home after about 14 months.
I wish someone would make a pictoral book about my generation's experiences with moving and changing towns...and put this on the cover.
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