Quote Originally Posted by pdcorlis View Post
Very handsome James! I understand your decision about the background but I always find the lack of shading or shadow to indicate "ground" in this sort of Photoshop work a bit disturbing.
Point taken! I'll look closely at the original, and see if I can move the mouse around in the right places. The original dosen't have any shadows to speak of, but maybe if I just shade to darker at the bottom, it will work.

I wonder, sometimes, if the advent of digital cameras and software like gimp (which is what I used) have put some photographers out of business.

I just said "photo-shopped" cause I'm not sure everyone would understand "gimped?"