The editors had determined that this lovely Oldsmobile was going to be the cover for a feature article in Classic Car magazine. The problem was a dreary industrial background, not really suited to a cover feature.
I used a background from a stock outlet, having to alter the resolution to match the subject, which was from a slide scan.
If you look at the final image, you can see the amount of work that had to go into blending the two source photos. My objective was to give the appearance of a photo-shoot taken at a pull-off in the Texas Hill Country right at sunset. To make this work required a lot of playing with the fall-off of light behind the car, to make the transition natural.
The resulting cover went on to set a news stand sales record for the title!