thumbs up author.. great way to start the contest

This is great!

Very creative. The Rule of Thirds might suggest that moving the elephant and castle to the left and doubling the length of the chain would enhance the compostional impact. A slightly smaller castle riding a real elephant would also be more effective IMO. The elephant's foot shadows (or lack thereof) make it look like it's floating slightly above the earth, not standing firmly on it.

cool

good. nice colors

very nice!!

Nice kick off to a hopefully humorous contest!

good idea

very good composing, blending, allover work.

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats

congrats

Congrats!!

Congraaaats ON 3RD

Very pretty, nice work

blending is needed but her expression consumes the image.. be careful of sources that over power your work.. You should want the dress to be the subject and it turns out her glaring power stare wins against it (Excellent thought though) good luck on this..you really need to blend the dress more to make it believable IF that is your goal

great!!

Original thinking and good use of external sources. Here and there the lamp needs a tiny bit of extra masking, but is really very little. Maybe if you lower the saturation from the lamp parts a bit it will fit better with the rest of the image. And not sure, but maybe a (sunny) photofilter for the background would help too. Up to you. Good luck!

very nice

very creative....................

lovely dress

good work

Nicely Done!! Best of Luck

Lovely work Author. G/L.

Creative use.

beautiful work

very nice mood

AHHHHHHHHH... after so many BLUE entries its nice to see an new Mood and tone..thank you author.. smooch

Three different light sources...castle would look better without the mist in front, to be outlined against the cloud background.

dracula's swan! good luck!

W.O.W..............speechless...........

Very well done.

wasn't there a similar entry before? with a lady in front? anyway, great job i love it!

This is a dramatic pic and a good idea, but I have to agree with CMYK on the light sources

very dramatic setting; the castle is huge

great looking work.. but u got to work on CMYK's comment.. gl

Thanks to all for comments. CMYK46 thanks for your advice. Flip ocean to match lighting and remove cloud in front from castle.

great entry... only thing i don't care for is the swan... seems tacked on for some reason... maybe it is it's position in the image... not sure. fantastic work over all! GL!

Nice dramatic image, I like the colors. Maaaybe you can add a bit of blur for the castle's edges, so that the light will look even more overwhelming. Good luck!

now thats what im talking about

stunning work author love the colours through this image. goodluck.

very nice entry, good colors

Great image...

nice. good luck!

Nice work love the atmosphere!

congrats

Congratulations for 1st Nasir

congrats well deserved win

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

Congrats...again

Congrats!

Great job!

nice work(size of the car reduce a bit)

comon! small mirror don't fit in this image! good luck!

SA WHEAT!!!!!!

Just too cool. Nice work.

wow i love what you did here

looks like the 20s! her shadow is too dark imo

nice work! frame would be much better without foam in left and right corners imho

nice environment with the car age time good work

Nice job, but I would eliminate her shadow. It would go down and right like the car.

What Pingenvy and Gopankarichal said...otherwise, nice work. I'd love to see it improve...

I have made the recommended corrections. Hopefully it's better.

Interesting image.

Nice work, maybe a biiit more contrast for the woman, and a little bit of burn around the eyes /but watch out the wont get too burnt either...). The reflection in the backside of the mirror is funny, but imo a bit too sharp (and well, they're not real reflections, but ok...). Good luck!

congrats

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Congrats on 2nd!