Emergency

[Destinatus]

Just trying out some composition and color stuff and turned into an illustration that kind of tells a story. It still feels a little weak to me though.

EDIT: oh yeah and some of the colors got washed out when I saved it. I think it has to do with the color profiles in photoshop, I'm not sure.

[Rascar Capac]

hey

heres a couple of quick things that might help this out

1 Maybe tilting the whole thing or framing from the point of view of the guy - right now its too static and straight on - not that interesting.

2 Squint and look at your values - the darks on the far mountain are very close if not darker than your cliff in the foreground...add to that the contrast is a bit too much for the time of day and compared to the rest of the piece..my eye goes straight there instead of the FG guy or the horse...
One quick way to check your values - put a saturation adjustment layer on top and look at it in black and white...everything will jump out at you without the distraction of color

3 Your sky and clouds could be so much more interesting- looks like a gradient back there...same with the moutainrange in the BG and the smoke - some reference would help.

4 That arch is cool but why not have more interesting shapes like that..it looks so out of place just there by itself..and ends to abruptly on the left side...

5 Noted about what you said about the color - assuming theres no color profile problem -a bit pasty in places..could have so much stuff goin on down there in the fields...it looks to me you might have used the dodge tool?

6 Push your foreground to background with overlapping elements - its all very flat at this point - maybe some more of the arches in the FG framing the whole thing

hope all that helps