Looked almost photography, except the house, the part behind the horse should be blurred, instead of the right part.

Thanks for the comment..i've updated it now

Very nice shop, looks really beautiful too!

grwat work, you got good thinking skill

Best one so far GL

great work

Beautiful work....And it really seems as if its a photograph...Too good...

Yes, much better. You can improve even more in some details: (1) to make the DOF more shallow, you need to blur the fence layer a little bit, so the main plane will be on the face of the horse. (2) Instead of Gaussian blur, you should use lens blur, which have the blur pattern similar to the real lense, and don't forget to add a small amount of noise, (3) in photography, you should avoid the continuous horizon because it cut your photo into 2 pieces, so you can make one more layer of something to disrupt this horizon (I mean the fence)

I think you over blurred the fence now. But this is still one of the better entries. And author, not all constructive criticism is... right. You're the ultimate critic. You decide.

nice job

Thanks for all the comments!..langstrum thanks for your comments, they were very helpful..and i actually did use lens blur not gaussian...and jawshoewhah thank you for your comments and the advice..i did leave it as is after i made changes to the background

Good work!

Nice idea from source...perhaps heal brush areas on one side of face to remove 'mirrored' look. Eyelid area should be different and maybe remove some strands of hair to make each side a bit more different (random). Nice work author!

I believe this is the best one..... GL. Very nice idea and work.

Congrats for your second place, Fatz!

Congrats!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats on 2nd palce Fatz! Great work

Congrats!