good effort, but check your shadows............ they are all over the show

The shadow of the swing doesn't match any of the shadows you've added...Two very different light directions. The kids are all different illumination (brightness) levels, too. The woman in the back is way too dark for being in the sun, especially compared to the "brighter" children...

i agree with the above comments! light and shadows are not good. try to fix that and then you might get high score!

Thank you every one for your comments. Tried to fix shadow and light waiting for new comments. Thanks

Author, you chose one of the most difficult images to create shadows for... especially when you use photos from a source site where each picture is taken by a different individual, in a different frame of light at all different exposures and facings..(You did a very excellent job blending in the water in the back ground..

you also need to understand that a child sitting on a swing would be the WHOLE shadow and the shadow from the swing itself would blend into the child's shadow as well.. (gaussian blur works great to get rid of the sharp edges and you have much more control over a duplicated darken copy of an image then you do over a global light drop shadow) (sometimes cloning out all the shadows at the beginning is a big help, (also dodging all the shadows of your subjects can give you a blank slate to work with) but there will always be strange angles of light (especially when there is water (light reflector) clouds (light benders and shadow casters on their own right) even the brightness of clothing can cause shadows to go wonky..

There are several tutorials you can follow to hone your skills, but I commend you for this attempt, and always remember we all start somewhere .. now I'm off like a prom dress.. GOOD LUCK!!!

Thanks again for your comments and suggestions will try to improve my skills.

Don't worry author, i'm in the same boat, shadows are hard to figure out! GL

To much conflicted light sources and this is very very hard to maintain. Idea is very nice but i don't see how is possible with this sources to achieve 100% realistic image...i would like to give u some good advice but maybe u could try to find some sources with kids with similar lighting...any how best of luck