Very believable.......nice job. GL.................JB

Very real...GL

Wow.... amazed!

cool!

The large grass in front makes the size proportion look wonky. They look like toy soldiers.

Thanks for your comments. Mossy, I considered the foreground at an early stage, and, living in the country, I decided there are a large variety of weeds & briers of all sizes and configurations so I left it alone. That being said, after your comment I duplicated the layer & cloned away some of the taller stuff. I then applied a layer mask to the top layer and gave the extreme foreground some blur to give some depth of field. After all, we wouldn't want things all wonky.

Nicely done! Seems you really took the time!

Blending is simply perfect, it's very convincent!

the only thing is the difference in pixels. otherwise. it looks awesome. love it. good luck

Fantastic concept author and i love it...Selection of color is top notch...also blending is done perfectly...i don't agree with Mossy about the grass... i opened your entry and watch in high resolution on 26" monitor but whole scene fits perfectly...well done author and instant fav from me...best of luck

Great idea!! Looks like it is how it's supposed to be... not like you chopped it at all IMO of course.

imho.....with this compsition...proportions or scale is lacking ...!!!

very creative

Love this! Overall nice work, tho the men on the far left look cut out a bit. But good coloring and blending, especially behind the trees in the distance. Some tedious work done here, pretty believable image! Very nice work, author.

Good blend! GL!

this is incredible!

Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Great job!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Congrats, a well deserved win by far!

Thank you all.

congratulations....

Congrats

congrats

Congrats!!

Congratulations.....

Really nice mood and composition. I would look for some shots of real crows or something in the sky, though. I think the bird brushes take away from otherwise nice work.

Yes the mood here is wonderful, and I'm glad to see you used the fence like this, very creative.

Fantastic image, author! I like the mood and the colors (am I dark?...) GL!

excellent job

Super image, author!! Well done

This is good looking.

Nice chop! probably a winner. GL!

very nice!

Hey, Dek! Congrats!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

well done...congrats ...

Congrats

congrats

Congrats!!

A really great image! I feel the danger..

Amazing ! So realistic you make this picture live...You create a story in it, you give the pics a soul. Bravo Good luck author

Great pic.. I like the green tint. Goes very well with the soldiers.

Gripping Condition...Keep watch,there enemies everywhere..And beware for mines...
Very very GOOD Story...

Great blend! The only thing that i don't like is that all 3 soldiers look the same ( flipping doesn't count).
You could search for other backheads, paint backpack, apply gasmask, helmets etc.
Since you're lvl 15+, blending shouldn't take you long, so no reason for lazyness :P.

Striking image!

Nice chop, but I agree with greymval. I would use different guys in the background, as that was the first thing I noticed.

Have to agree, different guys needed. But still a great piece of work

I honestly didn't even notice that the guys were all the same until someone pointed it out but overall it's an impressive blend so GL!

Very impressive....looks like a call of duty c.d cover :P....but i agree with everyone else that u shud hv used different guys....

like an ideea!... Why should I use another guy,,,or soldier????...I want to know your opinion....not only as mere opinion...maybe even learn something....?!?!!!??

i se a lot of emotion, this is fabulous

"Why should I use another guy,,,or soldier?"

This way it will look like a platoon is advancing through enemy territory and it would make the image more realistic, cause right now most of the people can see it's the same guy pasted 3 times.
It will also mean you worked harder and bring you higher votes - but that's secondary.
As i said you can use the same guy, just change head, backpack, apply gasmask, helmets, etc.
Unfortunately the contest is over, so in case you modify your entry, just post it in your albulms, cause that would be really cool.

Congratulations!

thx all...for your comm and tips!....

congrats ...

Congrtats.. very nice

Congrats!!

I guess they are going to the contest next door!

verry good!....goes to favorites!

i think you should vary the 3 things up a bit. you can tell they are all the same but very nice job. looks awsome.

Great work

I love your blending here. Very nicely done

Fantastic job! fav so far

Very eerie 'machines', nice coloring and integration to source.

Amazing work author , love the color

cool alien things!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Nice!!

nice mood.... congrats ...

totally robbed of 3rd, although I had even higher hopes....well done on this

the characters look animated.

Very warm and cute!

very very nice work author...everything looks great but the woman is master piece...well done

Excellent work, author

the background...more lighting with gradient radial...and the characters..a ltb more dark....imho!?!?!?!...just a sugestion!

Good idea for this background, author. What a nice family portrait!

How peculiar. I wasn't able to thumbs up the comments on my entry, so I went to the profiles of those I missed and gave a thumbs up to you on comments you made on others' entries.
Thank you for your comments!

Very nice work, beautiful concept

Great idea on creating a centaur family

Thank you for your votes and comments