Bingowings said:

Monroville said :

In this case, I like the original DVD shot better. I could see adding an AT-AT in the mid ground on the left (to balance the far off AT-AT and the foreground one - one that is mid size between the 2 we see) but the matte Ady is using looks very fakish. I could see maybe doing something with the cloudscape, but the back"ground" should stay the same (just color corrected).

I can't agree with you there, the original looks like what it is (a nice painting propped behind the models and hidden behind a weird tint) Ady's shots have much more depth to them, they look less like a theatre backdrop and more like a real landscape.

Um, Bingo? Are we looking at the same 2 pictures? Granted, I would like the DVD shot color corrected, but you can't tell me that the background on the DVD shot looks more like a painting than the backdrop on the Ady pic. Everything is so brightly lit that it is hard to tell just how far back the image really goes - it is the same problem with a lot of Prequel shots in that a lot of movies nowadays in general has that "everything must be lit up to show where the money was spent" look which looks fake.

When there is no real distinguishment between the foreground, midground and background, anything is going to look flat.