Cool! You just need to add some shadows to the hair... Or hat... Or whatever it is GL

Nice image, but i agree with Vladimir. A very, very nice picture overall, but i also feel like the thing that the girls is looking at should be shown in the iamge. Great job though, and good luck.

hehehe... me know whooooo (the close up High res on the face is AWESOME)

Really beautiful work, author!

very nice image!

cool extraction and diffrent perspective.blue glow balls should be properly blended.good job

wOw!!

nice to see this again

I didn't remember this one, but it wasn't hard to guess who made, after I had a look at your SBS and saw the girl. She is so beautiful! Just as your entry. Good luck!

this has a very strange 60s feel.. I think it's her coat.. I love the work on the "ice"... very different.. It does look like an old time magazine cover.... very good work.. (I'm sure there are some tech things.. but the overall image is very wonderful)

Interesting ideai think to make the light beams stand out you should try darkening the image. Good luck!

I agree with GolemAura about the feel of the shot. It's got a nice "cozy" feel to it and I like it a lot. I don't want to always be the one pointing out technical issues but I think it's important to get critiques to keep growing as an artist. The kids in the back are pretty spot on. The couple on the bridge feels a bit out of place. Part of it is the colors are a little too saturated compared to the rest of the shot and also with that strong back lighting you should be seeing a lot of white light wrapping around their edges. Still, a beautiful image and a high score from me!

thank you all very much for your comments.

@ nudanke: Technical input is always welcome, only that way I can improve my work, thank you very. I played with colors, balance but didn't think of the saturation. I adjusted the image and I like it better now, I hope I didn't take it down too much.

As to the white shine around the people I'm not sure I can agree. The light is bright but also pale, as in winter. It throws shadows, but not hard ones. I live in Switzerland where we have moods like that in winter, I never saw a white shine around people in light like that. What do you think?

I really like the skaters on the ice... excellent work!

The people on the bridge are looking better now so I think playing with the saturation helped a lot. You may be right about the light wrapping. It seems that you have bit more experience with that type of lighting than I do so go with what you feel is best.

This is great work! Love the nuances of this and the changes to the bridge itself! Only thing I suggest is that the banister seems almost too stark and bright. Perhaps darken the further points from the couple...back and add some variances in tone to the banister. This might help it look a bit more natural. Really nice job, love the atmosphere you've created with this!

EDIT: Railing looks gooood!

Wow! Very nice job on the kids' reflections and the adults' shadows! I would add an animal to the picture Good Luck

Good job! I especially like the kids on the ice and that you made the scating traces. These small things make an image real. Good luck!

Fun change of pace. It would be really, really cool if you could somehow change the reflection on the car to be that of the surrounding.

Nice addition for sure.

Something totally different! And a funny idea. Well... ok, probably not for the owner of the car, but ok Good luck!

I love this - nice thinking , I agree the reflection gives it away, but you made me smile widely. Nice change

Thanks for the great tips and comments everyone

LOL... I kinda find the whole scene funny... However the knights fighting on the bridge might need some shadow below their feet...

Also the knight on the right( in the bridge) need some masking between his arm...

Edit: Ahhhhh.. A stalemate... Nice... And the pic looks better now...

Thanks for the advice.... I think I fixed it!? Primarily I was trying to get rid of the rails and make it look good!? The picture is a chess metaphor kings fighting and last soldiers are the knights on the horses.... it should be a draw and no one wins.

this is just a great take on the source.. good luck (you are an old soul)

I'd lose the mounted knight in the background...it looks just like what it is: a statue, and placing it between the two fighting figures is distracting. Also, you lost some of the foreground knight's sword.

Looks better now...good luck.

Aww now it's not a stalemate anymore... I liked the previous one better... This one fine as well( I already had cast my vote, so doesn't matter)... However instead of removing that knight you could have done an another thing...

But no need to edit it anymore, cause too much editing can ruin the feel of the picture... Just saying this so you can apply this to an another image...

Instead of removing that horse rider, you could have blurred him a bit and also blur the background( blur the background more than you blur the horse rider in the back...)

And then you could have blurred the horse rider in the front as well... This would have created a nice dof and more focus would have been drawn to those two swordsman on the ground...

As I said no need to edit it anymore... Was just giving an example...

arkncheeze.... I thought about CMYK46 remarks and made adjustments... with my metaphor for chess as the main thought, I'm a chess dork, and even with removing the knight from the background it's still a draw in chess unless the lonely king makes an obvious blunder... lol....thanks for the comments and advice it's truly appreciate and helpfull...hopefully hear from you again.

This is great! Love the imagination, author! Shadows of foreground knight would be better darkened a bit more.

EDIT: Foreground Knight looks excellent now! Great job!

Very cool! Some shadows on the front knight will be nice! And maybe you should blur the front knight to add some "Depth of Field feel" to the image Good Luck

Beautiful composition. Seems that if you blur the people and remove the 'lighting up' you did...it will look more natural. I understand that you might want to keep their faces brighter to be seen more...it just looks like it would be more natural a bit darker. Lovely house and snow!!

Well done!

Beautiful fairy tail picture.

The rain looks a bit fake to me, too large drops, anyway nice work.