Help me fix my composition

[Jay Stone]

Hello , i am trying to add my Parents into nature , but the colors doesnt look good at all, i dunno what to do really, i tried all sorts of hue and sat tutorials but it still look very odd and not realistic , Thank you very much for any words. 

I am still using trial as Parents will get me Affinity Photo as my  christmass present

 

 

Edited November 9, 2021 by Jay Stone

[NotMyFault]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

You can find lots of tutorials showing how to match compositions tonally (see links below).

To get kind of realistic look, the following aspects should match:

• perspective (seems ok)
• lighting (direction and size of shadows): add highlights to parents faces
• Match contrast and colors.

 

 

Edited November 9, 2021 by NotMyFault
Added links

[smadell]

I believe that the color mismatch is a minor problem, compared to the lighting issue(s) which are the bulk of the problems. I've attached an .afphoto file with a few edits, as well as a JPG below. Basically, I got rid of a little bit of greenish color cast, but generally lightened up your parents quite a bit. I also used a dodge and burn layer, mostly to add highlights, trying to account for the directionality of the sunlight (above and slightly behind).

Parents in the Forest Edit.afphoto

[Jay Stone]

Thank you ,very much 🙂 , both of you

[Andy05]

The shadows below and on the deer are still a bit off, which might not be too obvious, but that's something a viewer of the image will notice unknowingly.

See the (harsh) shadows of the trees in the background. That's how the shadows are cast on that image. A bright light source is coming from the left, casting pretty strong and defined shadows. E. g. he shadow of the antlers on the forehead are revealing a different (read: wrong) angle.