Another net

TonyCooper

Another statue from the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture
Garden placed in a setting that the statue's pose seemed to
suggest. This one was a little more difficult since the arm
angle had to be changed to accommodate the racket.

I have too much time on my hands.

Stumblebum

Some amazing photoshop skillz!!! If I had that ability I would never do anything else! The other one that you posted is still more brilliant!

Richard

It's a clever concept, but this one doesn't work for me. You nailed the posture but the light is all wrong, which makes it an obvious cut and paste job. If you really have a lot of time to kill, try adding some shadows on the ground at the base of the statue. The net and its supports should provide clues to the directionality.

TonyCooper

Richard wrote: »

It's a clever concept, but this one doesn't work for me. You nailed the posture but the light is all wrong, which makes it an obvious cut and paste job. If you really have a lot of time to kill, try adding some shadows on the ground at the base of the statue. The net and its supports should provide clues to the directionality.

I thought about trying to add shadows, and there are some tutorials
online about doing this. I've never tried it. Had there been other shadows
on the court, I would have been forced to do so. Just pretend it was
shot at high noon.

In addition to the arm position change, the rough part was getting the
tennis net to show through the strings. Grabbing another section of
net and moving it over the racquet and then lowering the opacity of
this layer worked.

But, this was just a quick fun project, but I did shoot this tennis court
just for the composite.

Pssst...Richard....it's not supposed to make you think that's a real
guy, you know.