Great illustration of the size concept, but the lighting needs a lot of work. The planet is not lit so poorly that the baby's feet would be almost invisible in shadow, unless it was night. By contrast, there is a glaring white spot on the baby's shoulder that is very distracting, and is matched by the overly bright spot on the diaper.
The elephant "toy" (EXCELLENT size emphasis for the image) should have some sort of harness, instead of the cable just coming out of his back, and shows a rough extraction edge and some white pixels ~ Try using the Extraction Tool or the Pen Tool for better edges.

Consistency and edges are the key to good Photo-chopping, and you cannot "cover up" inconsistencies by simply making everything dark.

Well said MossyB. I think you said enough for everyone. But it is a cute idea

Try to make the water a little more transparent
good work

Yeah, i see what you mean Thanks

Instead of keeping the reflection on the edges like in the original try to take a piece of that rock & dolphins, warp it and lower oppacity to give realistic reflection on the recipient's walls ( i hope you understand what I'm saying.
And yeah, make the water trasparent & the jar itself.
Afterwards, select a the part of the image behind the jar and distort it. Something like this:
http://thenowandthen.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/irving-penn-girl-behind-bottle-1949.jpg?w=525

The water needs transparency... it looks like milk.

It looks better.

Very cute!

Good idea, but edges need cleaning up, especially on the left leg. Part of the background is still there between the jeans & shoe on the right side, and there's some sort of patch beneath the man's eye.

Now for once, CMYK46, you're very wrong - the legs are perfectly cut out, they are in fact seperate legs and clean as a whistle - am going to add them to my sbs now ( thought I'd done that) The patch under the man's eye is just part of him , (his lower lashes I believe) - does look odd though I must admit. I think you can see that if you look at the original pic in SBS's. Off to add the clean cut legs now........

Legs now No. 7 in sbs. Not had time to doctor them so that's how they were and are!

I can wait for a little apology - but bear in mind that I am booked in fot the "Horse og the year show" NOVEMBER 2011

This is nitpicking, but on the jeans beneath the man's eye, compare to the source image...there's some sort of irregularity there that looks like it's patched in. And at right of the left shoe, directly below the cuff, there's still a triangular piece of background that the arm of the star is pointing at.

The figure is a bit too sharp in focus. A little Depth of Field blurring would help the visual believability.

The left leg is problematic to this piece. Looking at the DOF blur of the floor and the angle of the camera, that left foot should be slightly larger at the heel, and toe needs to be angled upwards a bit, not "flat" on the bottom edge of the image. Also, the pant leg on the left leg is doing a weird "pinched in" mirror effect at the ankle, and shows an odd gray fade mark running about 10 inches up the back of the leg and stopping.

The light source on the man's face is very strong, striking his chin and lower cheek from the top. This would make the shadows of the legs stronger on the left.
I cannot visually "read" the forearm with the watch on it. It looks like a brushed metal pipe, not a hairy forearm...

Personally, I'd suggest darkening those eyelashes. The light reflection on them is too distracting to your overall image.

MossyB - I'll need a day or two to digest all the info, but thanks for it all the same. CKYM46, I QUOTE "And at right of the left shoe, directly below the cuff, there's still a triangular piece of background that the arm of the star is pointing at." It is in fact the black strap of the man's watch! With regard to the jeans just below the man's eye - it's just where the jeans fold on to the shoe (foot) Baggy jeans man!!

Tomorrow, tomorrow............

LOL...the LEFT shoe!

THE END! (Baggy jeans and all!) Thanks for all the comments, they really have been appreciated - have simply done my best! I realise it may not be good enough......

Dude, it's a good entry, don't get discouraged, we've all seen a hell lot worse. People here are just trying to help u improve, it would be more unpleasant not to have any feedback.

Very good.

looks great.... you did a good job.... good luck

Aw, thanks George!

Congrats.., very nice entry

I like what youve done here, made your own stargate . Nice one.

Really nice use of source! Good luck!

A really fun image, I like it , perhaps you could work on the shadows of yourself and the stargate, look at the shadow of the table you are sitting at for direction and length, good luck

Thanks for the comments, and good observation Madamemonty - I've made some changes, looks better to me, shadows can be tricky! Feedback is appreciated.
Edit: Learned something new and tweaked this again.

Love the attention you have paid to the detail ... like the picture of Amelia on the wall and the goggles are perfect. Great work!

Yes indeed arca is right about the attention to detail, the shadow on the wall of yourself is a nice touch. Very nice!

Very creative

great humor and perfect execution...well done author

Congrats for your third place, Pearlie!

congrats

Thanks for your votes and support, this was a fun chop, I really got into it!

Congrats Pearlie, I saw you share the same interest with the mechanics things as me . That's the great job with many details, you should spend long time for searching the sources and put them well together.

Congrats!! Nicely done!

congrats for the 3rd place....

Congrats...great entry...

congrats!!!

Thank you Nator

nice work...gl