Great job! I really like the feel on this one...

It's frightening!

ready or not here i come

Welcome to PXL author. You might want to take some time to read the rules and guidelines. Entering similar entries is against the rules. I'd flag either this one or the other for removal or the mods will remove them both. Then take some time and read :

http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/
http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-participate-in-pxleyes-photoshop-contests/

Oh really? i thought we are allowed to send upto 3 entries in each category... I did not see it in the guidelines prohibiting to send more than one entry in each category... in fact i have seen some authors with multiple entries in previous categories... anyways, you're the pro... so i guess i need to remove the other one and perhaps move it to mixed manipulations category... thank you for the tip... i appreciate that...

I think they might have left out that specific rule are far as similar entries in contest. I was there and is still a rule as I know. You are allowed to enter three entries but the similar entries rule is mainly there because if you enter two similar entries and if I can tell they are both yours it makes one of your entries no longer anonymous by voting on one. Besides, it shows more creativity in your entries when you keep them more diverse. Make sense?

love this! the only thing i have a problem looking at is the skull on the bottom left, its too dark, maybe brightening it up and adding some more contrast would be great!

I can see this maybe being silhouettes, but "dark surrealism?"...nah.
(Try to figure out which layer should be blurred most).

Really reminds me of The Nightmare Before Xmas or the Corpse Bride.. wonderful imagination and creations

Very original and unusual ... interesting and surreal image!

The final result is very blurry, and the overlay of the organic texture turned into a strange shape and lost almost all the interest from when you first applied it to your background image. It looked quite interesting at that stage, but then became overdone.

Its too blurry and the texture from the source image does not blend nicely. It looks like you cropped it and just put it there

i agree

Good attempt, maybe learned a few things for next time?..... good luck author

lighting clashes between the skeleton, tower and sand. The shadow the fish is casting is also incorrect. I'm not too sure what that spike is beneath the fish either... you should upload a high res version so it can be seen better.

its surealism ponti , the fish is not casting any shadow, the grain and the overall color composition for me is the title "nightmare fishing" , i apreciate your comment.

i love surealism images some of my favourites are ones with shadows, they just dont match the object they come from ;p maybe give that a go too...

Surrealistic or not, lighting is a basic principle in all images... it may never be 100% right but something as simple as flipping the tower would improve your image. If you'd like to go into more depth then i also suggest trying to make the strong dark shadow from the original source much softer and brighter to fit in with the surroundings. (look at how soft the shadows on the sand are)

um, not bad

cool idea....gl