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.....

good work, nice blending

great job!

Looks nice the second time around.

nice mood and lovely colors

Love the period pieces.. always a solid choice.. wonderful Author

nice.

Really captures the mood i think. It's a very nice blend too. Great work!

First class blending & scene top job!

So...the only use of the source pic is for bushes in the foreground...??

And the sky in the background CMYK

images are matching good......

nice atmosphere and the soldiers are worked in well. Would like to see the smoke blend into the clouds a bit more.

Also for the second time still a nice blend. Not sure if it was already in the first submit, but now I notice that in the left side there's still some of the bush visible in the air (above the source bush). Would be nice to see that masked away. Good luck!

Nice belnding. Very believeable.

very nice

Lovely entry, blended well together. Just check the sky on the left again.

fixed........thanks for the great comments!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats! Well done!

Congrats for your second place!

Congrats!

Congratulations!!!! on 2nd!

Congratulations!!!!

congrats!!

Thanks guys, but only a 56.9%....thats a bit of an insult!

congrats