LOL, I like the composition. Have I seen that guy on the right before? I think on John's Blog a few days ago?

WRONG! Sorry, Mark Power's photoblog - Mark Power's shot of the same guy

Doh!

Sorry but it seems the only time I post is when I don't like something. That's not very clever is it? I don't like it but then I'm a landscape person.

Saying that, I don't post very often so maybe that says something about your work!!

Did you back a winner today?

I hope so.

Anyway, Keep up the good (and generally awesome) work.

What an interesting photo! Well, I don't feel irritated at all, it's a fantastic image. And thanks for posting the two originals, it makes more interesting the photo.

Neat technique, turns an innocent soccer picture into someone getting shot!

Until I read that it was a composite, I thought this was some sort of graffiti game, where player 1 (or should that be "sprayer 1"?) had used the concrete edge to draw someone sliding down a rope, and then player 2 had shot him :-)

Only after reading that it was a composite did I spot the vanishing horizontal edge on the LHS...

I don't hold with the 'its other peoples art' thing (because i feel that photography can be about documenting other events/art/whatever in a certain form or perspective, as well as art in its self, and so much more besides) but it's their view and they are intitled to it. As for the 'not photography its digital art', the two will often merge in my experience (as a 'viewer') and it either works or doesn't, and thats the important thing.

The bottom line is that I just like the image you have created here, it makes you think more than either of the origional two alone could have done. As usual, well done!

I like the texture in this one.

Funny, I clicked on the 'comment' link to complain, but your first line completely diffused me. :-)
Excellent composition. Great work. As always.

The idea is fun, the digital art is great and a good technique, but I don't like it, I really don't know why, maybe the fact that's it's creating a scene of violence and murder.

the blue on the edge looks odd

Nicely done :-)

nice shot, but scary cause this is whats happening in the world.

eheh, very cool! that's what i call "urban art" :P

I'm in the first camp ;)

cool image mind

Cool transition, with just some difference in the stone texture .

I like kung fu (even when performed by soccer players), and I like killer bunnies (though I've never met one), so what's not to like in the image?

I prefer by far the originals, at least you've got a micro-serie. That's still art reproduction, but keeping it in its original form leads to something more interesting, to my opinion, and, well, as a photograph, too, because digital art is not just merging two pictures, or at least it could have be done much better (just keeping the painting of the second one, and the environement of the first, which is much more interesting : context of the floor, the wall, the concrete), because "digital" means more tools to achieve a better result. Using a gradient mask looks more like an analogic mix of two images : using some filter in the front of the lens, rewinding the film, inverting the filter and taking a new picture.

But I guess I'm part of one of the brigades you're naming ;-)
HTH, anyway.

Is that a footballer on the left? You know you don’t need to shoot them these days; they fall down all by themselves. Its a fun shot, just another way for you to express yourself. Nice one.

You know, I prefer the left image on it's own. It really stands out for me - just something about it :)

strange scene.

Thanks everyone.

re bruno "nice shot, but scary cause this is whats happening in the world."

killer bunnies shooting people?
hehe.. nah I feel ya.
you know I had to say it though.

I didn't notice the vanishing line at the bottom until looking at the originals either. and I actually really like the choice of keeping the blue there.

i think this is great. it's not a technique i would use but it is done artfully and skillfully here. the composition is subtle enough to allow the focus to be the street art while adding just enough to make it look pollished.

keep up the great work

right, again thanks for taking some snaps of my work, cant speak for the artist of the footballer though