good use of source..nicely done..good luck

Nice image...good blend of the swing. Girl is to much bright IMHO,and light source is a bit wrong. Her right side should be a bit darker cause she is in dark corner. Work a bit more at this author cause this image have nice potential...Best of luck

FIXED!
thanks a lot itsdesign and erathion for your comments,
any way erathion, what is IMHO stand for?

In My Honest Opinion - IMHO

IMHO stands for in my humble opinion....and yes, nice fix author...

Congrats for your second place!

Congratulations

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!!

congrats!

The snake is a bit hard to read, visually. Perhaps adding a forked tongue?

The wooden post with the Pxleyes logo, and the text title at the bottom are distracting to the image, I would suggest removing them.

You might want to also increase the lighting on the ostrich just a wee bit, it is too dark presently.

Very imaginative concept!

I accepted the criticis and corrected some things, logo and text is deleted, lighting Improved on ostrich, I did an experiment and you were right
but for now the snake will not touch
is it better now ?

and two light sources are, one for snake and one for ostrich !

I like the dueling spot lights... good image all around IMO

nice job...very creative

hahahahahahaha...super unique idea and nice execution...well done author

Here my opinion :
The main symbol of the puppeteer is that wood cross on which the strings are attached:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=14803377&refnum=1647260&source=sxchu04&source=sxchu04
but i don't know where you could find a stock with that. If you do, it would improve the mood for sure.
You have 3 girls, all in white & all brunettes, which lowers the impact, cause of the same element repetition ( and not cause they're brunettes ) .
You could:
- either keep just one, controlled by two hands = more of a "being controlled" feeling.
-or have them all in different colors, neutral color on the foreground girl, & opposing colors on the other two.
- or one evil one good, one sad one happy, etc.
That would give a "playing with your mind feeling"

....master of puppets is pulling your strings
twisting your mind, smashing your dreams .... as the song i think it should have a darker feel, but that's just me

I have to agree with gornats, when I listed to this song i don't get a mental image of pretty ballerina girls.

Gornats: The song is about drug addiction. Hence I can see why people couldn't get the ballerinas, as opposed to drug addicts.

That's what I see when I'm on drugs; just wish I could see the strings maybe go around the fingers... Still like it!

I think that the lower fangs are missing... but it's a cool image.

i really like how you made the skin so pale like a real vampire! right on target!

Why the blur?

i find it 2 simple thats why i put some effect in it

It's pretty nice. But shadow is wrong (if you look at the original image of the puppeteer, you'll see the right position of the shadow).

thanks erikuri i have make a new shadow cuz this is a difrent environment and i wantit to make a defrent image butt thanks for the comment

its nice entry,but i am with Erica about this... Environment its self don't demand shadow like this...if u look at the puppeteer u will see where from light coming,so according with this your shadow should be,now shadow make some kind of distraction...and shadow should be a bit softer,apply gaussian blur there a bit...entry is well made and will be better if u fix that...best of luck author

ok im gone fix it thanks

nice idea