Saving Private Carmine

Gears of War is a fun shooting game for the Xbox 360. Although not the first to introduce it, the game mechanics were so popular they were put in many shooting games from then on.

Here, Marcus Fenix is helping Clayton Carmine, one of the last surviving Carmine brothers, scale an ocean cliff. The first two brothers died in each of the first two games in the series - Anthony was head shot by a sniper and Benjamin was eviscerated by a parasite. The developers held a fan poll to see if the remaining brother would survive the final game in the trilogy - he did.

I went to the park and took a close-up shot of the figures on a large rock. Since I blew out the background to get the soldiers properly exposed, it was a simple deal to create a layer mask on the part I wanted to keep - the soldiers and the foreground rock.

I combined the above image with a shot of the waves at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, which I took during the summer. Because of the gray murkiness of the water, I adjusted the color balance, clarity, and vibrance to make the the ocean look blue without making the rocks and pebbles appear unnatural.

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