wonderful idea ! gl

Brilliant idea and awesome picture! And the first entry, too!

Very well done.. and a fantastic idea!

Nice work on splitting the cards looks very realistic -- One question should the cards on the table be a reflective as the table itself?? Looks a bit odd IMHO
Edit sorry did not look t the source see what you mean still a great job

I know what you mean alan but this is down to the stock image i started with . so i worked from that !

A question, if the cards are on the table there should there be a reflection on top of them??

PS look at the source image

thats cool author.. and yea its not in your hand about the source image.. but can you try to reduce the opacity of that reflection.. I guess you can...

More realistic than this, only a real situation!

cool gl

Cheer Nator i'll have ago at that in a couple of days !

awesome entry good luck author...

Cool! Apparently your source image from topfer has the king of hearts etc. under a sheet of glass which is kind of odd. But topfer also has a pic of the aces without any under-glass cards which probably would have been less distracting. Also, I think a crisper bullet would be more compelling.

awooooooovesome

this is cool

I agree with Nator here.. this looks perfect.. and a lot better.. high votes for sure..

Great job author...good luck

damn that's good.. can i use this for my desktop background?!

keep up the good work!

Not original but very well executed. Well done

@ langstrum i think you should google high speed photography bullet card.
BTW i fired 1 or 2 of these http://blogs.birminghammail.net/technobabble/800px-SA-80_rifle_1996.jpg since i was in the british army and i'll tell you i never saw fire coming from any part of this SLR. research, research is the word here donkey !

i really like this one and have seen this done by a pistol sharpshooter.
Great job Author

One of the best I've seen GL!

Excellent job, by far the most realistic! GL & well done

congrats bad boi! knew it was a winner!

congrats Reap!

Congrats dear Reapy roo! Good job!

Congrats

Congrats!!!

Congrats Reap, awesome work

Congrats. Great work

congrats

congrats.......

Thank you everyone .. thanks for all the FAV votes too

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Woot! great chop Reap

very convincing

hmm why does this reminds me of my entry......

Se7eN0f9 I have no clue what you are talking about. Is it in this contest?

All from scratch makes this a very nice image. Good luck

Nice work doing all that from scratch!!

great work!!!

Good job on following the tutorial but you should try to change some of it to make it more original such as putting a motion blur on the match and changing the shape of the fire, good luck ; )

Edit:maybe you're right, I only watched the first half of the part 1 video

Kid you need to take a closer look bud at the shapes you mentioned and negative about the motion blur. BTW, I recommend watching the complete tutorial parts 1 and 2, some good information there.

nice idea well done -- lighting around the head is well done

very very good

i like it good idea and chop

Pretty realistic! I can also hear the match scratching the box...

u are a master with the matches.. I know before....... (think.... that you too know...) Very very well executed work... OK take this from me..

Nice work! To further appreciate what the author has done, I recommend viewing the SBS. Great job, lots of subtleties.

very nice idea and great job...good luck author

I really like this, well made! Great job, author!

great job

this is great, looks fast

Look good.

congrats!

Congrats

congrats

well deserved... congrats....

congrats well done .. I love it

Congrats!

Grats, Ichappell! Once again, great working on making all that from scratch.

looks nice

Your main problem is the source for the fly is the photo with shallow DOF but the frog's one is not. Imagine that if you place anything behind the fly, it will become blurred (so your image is wrong in term of DOF, Depth of Field). You can fix that by blurring all the area behind the fly or re-create the blurring part of the fly (mush tougher). However, the idea is very good

Langstrum is right about the source and DOF, however IMO I would perceive the blur of the fly (legs and wings) to be motion blur. The fly would be the only thing moving rapidly at that point, so although closer would be the most blurred.....Great entry

thanks for the comments!!! ;] Geexman is correct that the legs and wings of the fly are from motion blur, as you can see in the source for the image... I do understand what you are saying about the DOF but i think that i have created the depth needed with the small amount of blur i have added to the frog and tongue already... they would be relatively close as a frog's tongue would be no more than a few inches in length. I appreciate your time viewing my image!!

I see what Langstrum is saying, but I can forgive any problems with the DOF. The picture is meant to look cartoony and caricature-like from the start so I don't think the DOF is too much of a problem. IMO, of course. Very creative and very well executed. Good luck, author.

I think this is a great image...good idea and well executed..GL!

cool execution!

I like this one! It looks like the fly was smashed against a piece of glass. I especially like the spit/guts spraying... Nice idea, and nice job on it. Maaaaybe you could add a small shadow (burn) between the two tongue pieces, to create a shadow above the top one. Just a thought. Great work and good luck!

lol this is great . Looks like the frog is enjoying the splat.

nice image ... imo ithink DOF is OK because if the eye OR lens is focused on the frog, then what is behind AND in front will be out of focus, in re-creating a photo-realistic image - well done ...it's all down to ISO, shutter speed, etc.

I like this one, I think it's funny, and well done. This would not have came to mind for highspeed motion, so this is very clever hehe.

Funny and creative..... and GL .....

good one

congrats!

Congrats .

congrats

Great!!

congrats good win !

Congrats!

Gratz!! I'm sure that frog is happy. I doubt the same could be said for the fly.

Good work on the splash! It does indeed look realistic. Good luck, author.

Very nice splash! Looks 100% real.

very good work author...my only one nit pick is that color of the splashes have to be just a bit darker...good luck...high votes from me

Beautiful splashes! Pretty realistic (I think I'll try to do it later...)

Thank you very much for your comments and suggestion. I do agree with erathion but I'm not able to change it now

excellent entry and a nice sbs...

Congrats!

Nice SBS, can be easily turned into a tutorial! Result is also neat, maaaaybe I'd add some bubble and such under water too. Good luck!

Thanks for the kudos and critique. Good idea on the bubbles under water. I added some, thinking that they wouldn't be blurred the way the above-water bubbles would be. Thanks.

Nice work on the splash!

I do agree and very good sbs Good luck Author
Hope you make a tut out of this

Thank you for showing us how to do it; I learned one more tip with it!

very good...gl author

great work author...

Congrats!