Help me find a background for this photo

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  • vaxorcist0

    because the original has very flat lighting, it will be a challenge to make a background that doesn't seem photoshopped in....

    If the original has more facial modeling, more rembrandt-like light, i.e. from an angle, with some cheekbones, a few shadows, then photoshopping in a background with a similar light and contrast can work well...

    but photoshopping a background in where the original has flat light means your background has to have similarly flat light, and therefore is likely boring enough that an uninformed client will ask you to put in something more interesting, then you get in this circle-from-hell-loop where you put in a more interesting background and the foreground looks fake so you tweek the background and foreground and it looks more fake, but, well, less boring...

    so, I'd start with a different original foreground...

    • < this, best to just find a good image to start withmonospaced

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