Nice idea, but the water reflection is too clear and rigid. It looks more like a mirror than water.

Hey Thanks. Your right I changed it. How's This!

I think gamemastertips is quite right. The reflection still looks too uniform and mechanical.

No, but I think it may be much better now. However, the frontmost section of the water looks quite odd...like it may have been distored a tad much. I'd also suggest making the water a bit murky, possibly by making a slightly transparent overlay blend of the original water texture. Not sure how this would look, but you could give it a try.

EDIT: I'd go with what blindscientist is saying.

The ripples are cool, but usually water ripples in response to motion of an object in the water - in this case the swans. The ripples shown tend to suggest that the motion might be coming from something else in the water somewhere out of the frame (perhaps a person or boat causing the waves). My only suggestion would be to smooth the ripples out a bit (soften them), and perhaps add small "ring" ripples emanating from each swan that is moving. Just a thought. Good luck!

My only suggestion would be to find a higher resolution source picture. When in full view you can really tell the source image is pixilated.

With this lighting reflection is to hard,lower the opacity a little bit.And clouds that cover the half of the moon are cut-ed unnatural,give them a bit fluffy-nes and would be great then.And if u creating the reflection in dark images,use gradient tool but with low opacity,that will do the work.Good luck with this one.

nice design good work.

Do I understand well, that you put the moon's reflection on the left side of the image, while the moon self is on the right side? Not sure if that's logic. Good luck!

pretty dark......gl though

if you angle the image of the moon's reflection to match where the moon is..you can keep the reflection in the same spot...it just needs to look like it's coming from that moon and not randomly placed in the middle of the lake

might want to add an outer glow on moon, gl!

You would never view the reflection that way. It would be directly below the moon, not off to the left.

nice reflex.

very nice.... its an awesome image!!! Good Luck Author!!!

oooh very pretty, well done...

Nice mood, I dont really miss the dwarf . Good luck!

Masterpiece

Great work...

Nicley done!!!

nice one...i like the water effect

Looks like an old oil painting really nice!

Great work...........Good Luck Author.

amazing job

Congratulations on the first!

Congrats for your first place, Jaskier!

Thanks for Your comments and votes.

Congrats!!

congrats

congrats on your 1 place

congrats on your 1 place

Wow, like it. GL

real nice... maybe the back hands can use some gaussian blur?

KingRafox, the back hand is surface blured (sorry, maybe I mistaken in term, my photoshop in not in english). In any case, thank you for your comment

reflections are very well done -- nice image

Well done

I wish you could have uploaded a higher res, but it still looks very well done in this resolution. So GL!

niceee

Lovely image.. great reflections and a nice atmosphere. Good luck!

Beautifully done. Looks realistic

Super work........Good Luck Author.

Thanks to everybody

Congrats for your third place, Eramono!

Congrats

Nice clean chop...good luck!

good idea... original in this contest

fantastic!

wow i like

Good work

good job!

Great change up to the source and contest. I like your thinking, author!

Thanks for comments!!!

Very very nice,but poor sailors...

Sorry mate, it's been done to me 20+ times. Your sinkhole image is copyright. Underneath it says (C) not my image

Yes Barnacle I saw this, I am trying to get the permission, I hope get it soon. Thanks for warning.

cool ship

very nice job

Congrats, really well done

And congrats for another first place!

Congratulations for 1st

congrat for your first on this contest DML

Congrats