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Freedom - The Carousel 2 of course, which got a DD and is the most appreciated after the original one (it is a recreation of my old picture Freedom - The carousel) I don't know how it came in my mind, but it was after a hard discussion with my son: I wanted so much to escape from everything...

Again a very personal creation, from a I Ching hexagram. I love it move and, once more, its freedom feeling.

Inspired by the beautiful photos Гордеев Эдуард nau.35photo.ru/ I love the theme of rain and lights in the night. I'll surely do more picture on this theme. I'd like to use my own photos, but I'm living far from a town, it is difficult for me to find illuminated streets.

Of course, the last french dramatic events scored me. News often inspire my artwork.

I broke my ankle, and it inspired this picture. Freedom again.

I actually try to recreate my old stuff, so I can see what I did wrong at the beginning (this may be useful for many people):
- Do not use a lot of stocks: the quality of a photomanipulation is not proportional with the amount of stock used. But take a great care to match and blend all the pictures together: the levels or the curves adjustments are very useful.

- Do not forget the shadows and take care of the perspective.
 - Avoid the use of textures when you are a beginner: it is an easy way to hide flaws, but it will not help you to improve. And if you need one or more textures, use them lightly.

- Many light adjustments give a better result than a few heavy ones. This is particularly available if you want to dark a picture from day to night: you may use a mixing of curves, levels, multiply mode on a duplicated layer, selective color (gray), color lookup, etc., but all of them lightly or with a low opacity.

- And, most of all, work, work and work: it took me 5 or 6 years before I got an acceptable technics. There are many very good tutorials, use them.

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Thank you