my attempt at making a matte painting...

hey looks good

THree sugesstions
1) apply some blur to the house -- nothing else in pic is that sharp, but try to find somerthing the same distance from the imaginary lens as the house and use that as refernce for the percieved sharpeness at that focal point.
2) the gamma/brightness contrast is different for the house and the caves than the rest of the pic -- the blacks are crushed in the house and ony go to dark grey elsewhere except in the fake caves. Look at the level of black around the rocks near the lowest cave -- that's your darkest level in the main photo - gray, not black -- so either bring the shadows up to gray in the caves and the house or crush them in the main photo.
3) the stair case you made has no noise. Expirement applying some noise and/or grain both universially to the whole finsished thing and to that area alone. Probably heavier noise on the stairs to make it match and then just a very small amount to the whole thing to make it look like its on the same stock/been through the same processing, was shot with the same lens -- etc. :thumbsup:
 
The scale on the building is much better. The overall tone of the scene lacks much contrast though, seems very murky.
 
Why is the moon yellow? heh. The surface of the moon is mostly gray, and reflecting the hot light off its surface makes us see it as somewhat blue. I'd make it very bright blue and colour the rest of the sky in shades of blue.
Also the lighting of the cliff isn't evenly distributed. For instance, in the right bottom corner the cliff is somehow lift by another big light source. Same for the boat. You should darken most of the cliff. The water is quite bright as well, bringing it's brightness down and painting in some moon reflections wouldn't hurt.
And I still think the lightning just doesn't fit here. If all other imperfections aren't readily apparent, the lighting is.
 
...er, I think its supposed to be somewhat stylized rather than photo- real -- I think the moon is yellow like a graphic type moon -- I mean otherwise, why is everything else black and white, etc.
 
There is something about the perspective in the foregreound cliffs at their bottom that is catching my eye. I can't place it exactly though. It almost looks like the ocean and the cliffs were shot at a differnt angle?

Great work, and that crit is a small one, since you have put the whole together well, and especially since different photos with the right perspective (which you have shown you can blend together very well) would negate it.

Nice work. Very well done.



ps. Change the moon to something with more detail, if you want. It's the only thing completely out of focus. Maybe just put something in where you can see the shape a little more, with the glow on top, just to define it.
 
Another thing to check is the tower on the building. The perspective on it is too steep and doesn't match the rest of the building. (See how the roof line tips too far down into the back, whereas the other roof lines are more horizontal?)

Otherwise, I think this is looking quite good. The stark shadows aren't that much of an issue because, for all we know, there is a clear spot in the sky where the moon is peeking out over and behind our right shoulder.
 
Uh...for the record, my comments about the moon were from the earlier version. I didn't look far enough ahead to the other updates. (Whoops, sorry folks.)
 
I was a little bored last night so I decided to give it a go.

Still needs some calibration in terms of lighting, and it's probably a bit too dark since I worked on it at 3 AM or so.
 
here's my try...
my_matte.jpg

I solved the perspective issues I think.
 
Nice comp. if trhat is your first attempt then I see its gong to get better and better. This still looks almost like its out of A Tall of unfortunate events
 
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