About the Image(s)

Here is ”The Get-away Car””. During a photo workshop about abandoned houses, I stumbled on a cemetery for old cars and fell totally in love with a backlit beauty (Orig.1). I could see the spirits of Bonnie (Orig.2) and Clyde (IOrig. 3) hovering by. I used the car image as a background, enlarged the canvas at the bottom and added a layer of Gaussian blur in the lower part. Bonnie and Clyde were cut out and pasted on the background in 50% opacity in luminosity mode - I had a lot of problems with Bonnie and her wisps of hair, and I think that she looks rather clumsy. I turned the whole lot into black-and-white and added a little Gaussian blur on their outlines, and diffuse glow, in Affinity Photo. The sepia toning is intended to give it an aged feeling - I don?t know if it only makes it look stuffy.. - I think that the bokeh and flare in the background image create a nice dreamy feeling, but Bonnie and Clyde look disappointingly non-ethereal. if they are made more transparent, they disappear in the background, and making the brighter seems not work either. I am so looking forward to your ideas!