Photo Manipulation

Jan Oliehoek
http://www.janoliehoek.com/
I found this artist by searching for photo manipulations on google. I looked through the images on the link above and chose these two for my research because I liked them the best.
The first image was originally by Marcus J. Ranum. then manipulated by Jan Olihoek. It is called 'Handgun'
I chose because I like how realistic this is, when I first looked at this, it actually made me cringe. I like the whole idea of the hand being shaped like a gun and the top of the finger representing the bullet.
The 'fluid' coming out of the finger looks like it's supposed to be the smoke like you would get on a gun.
I think this is a good photo manipulation because it looks so realistic but this would never happen.

The second image is called 'Candle Fish'
I chose this image because you can never have a flame under water, and to have it on top of a fish is not realistic. This is why I chose it, because of how real it looks.
I also like the way the flame is reflecting light onto the other fish and things around it, this helps to make it looks more real because if this wasn't there then it wouldn't give it a good effect.

I rate this work 8 out of 10 again because of how realistic the images look, and how unique they are. Both of these images would never happen in real life, but they have been manipulated to look like they would.