What's missing in this image?

Question

I'm working on this collage. All images are licensed under an attribution creative commons license and I've been saving the sources so I can credit them.
Anyways here's the image
http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss210/madeline4434/Capture.jpg (The gray border is just from me taking a screen snip, it's not part of the actual final image I'll be saving)

I feel like something's missing. It just looks unfinished. What could be done to improve it?

Answer 1

I feel it lacks a focal point. The Moon, the Astronaut and the Rocket are all about equal. Start fresh and make the picture about just one of those three things--any one you like--and relate, and subordinate, the others to it.



Also it could use a bit more unity. If you have good photo manipulation software like Photoshop, try changing the 3 elements so they are all within the same limited color scheme, for example. Or the same texture. Anything to give them a common visual element to go with their related meanings.



Personally, I would probably try tinting the background image more, darkening the edges, etc. to try to make it look like an old Leonardo Da Vinci drawing http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/ and then it becomes like a commentary on Man's dream of technology through time...

Answer 2

The Moon?

Answer 3

Change the background so that the moon, the rocket and the astronaut Pop out.

Answer 4

It doesnt exist. "The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder describes herself as a contactee with the ability to receive messages from extra-terrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain. She states that she was chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner Solar System in May 2003 (though that date was later abandoned) causing Earth to undergo a pole shift that would destroy most of humanity." ...Yeah.

Answer 5

maybe the earth or the moon somewhere?