Congrats! for your 3rd place.

Congrats for your third place!

Interesting image. But background image (river, running course) is cloudy, and fishing boy too. Given source and kids in the water are lit by sun.

In high resolution u have big light source issue author...people in the water are in the total sun,and in your image there is no sun anywhere...also u could blend boy on the rocks a bit more,to change his color.Change mode to CMYK and play a bit with curves...i would ton a down magenta for sure.People are to big for the rest of the image,and they need some shadows...Sorry for the nit picks but idea is very nice and this could be good entry...good luck

Already a lot better with the out of perspective rock removed. You could have blended it in with perspective tool and shadows perhaps, but takes a lot of skill and times, so obviously better choice if you're busy on your life (aren't we all). I'm glad you appreciate my comments and suggestions. And I know how you feel.I think we all sometimes (even best of us) make a picture for hours, then send it with full excitement, how good we did.. waiting some praise and then someone comes and tells how obvious flaws we missed.It is always a good thing to give the image "a rest" and take a new look with fresh eyes and mind.

But it's the whole point of this site I think.. to learn, give and take tips and improve our skills. Would be utterly boring to see 100 perfect chops every night with nothing to say but 'Awesome work dude!111' ..

Pretty nice work, but the leftt side dark and big boulder doesn't fit into the perspective here very well. There is also a slight problem with the scale of the people when compared to each other. Walking kids and the one fishing could use a slight shadow, you can use the rock shadows as a guide, where the light comes from. To make it even more realistic, you could cast some shadows from the big bushes and trees on the left side of the river bank. (There is also a minor masking error on the left side of the cycling path.

you must have put a lot of time into this. great job.

wow i love this 1

Very nice work author...i have few nit picks do...first thing,elephant have to be a bit bigger,and u will achieve better blending if u use some color layers.With color like this my recommendation would be dark brown color layer with low opacity and maybe blue-gray soft light or color layer with very low opacity...just an idea...good luck

cool 1

Very creative idea, I do have a couple of suggestion for improvements......The two men and the bench are to sharp compared to the source. The shadows are to small and not dark enough IMO and facing in the wrong direction, if you refer back to the original source (stone border) you will see what direction your shadow should be......it’s a great effort keep up the good work!

agrees with RayTedwell

agrees with RayTedwell

woot!! I love it when it gets nippley out :P and Jade I thought this may have been your chop but no matter, and i have seen he/shes with the biggest fake knockers around k5683.
Good luck Author

just because she's a lovely member of the IBTC, doesn't mean she's not got a "rack"...its just a smaller one than some people prefer.
as president of the IBTC, i'd have to say she gets props for being brave enough to go braless in a dress like that, and...well, with her current condition must be a bit of a "nip" to the air. :lol:

hhaahaha cool

lmao, Great job!

As per the above comment, why critique it for not being what you would do, instead of critiquing it for what it is?

I would have made them guns coming from a RACK! Not something that looks like a transexual. Sorry to be so critical.

Funny idea but I'm afraid the quality of the chop is not great. It doesnlt look like the guns are part of the image, why are some parts of the guns transparent?

hahahahha very cool!

Woot! I can guess but I may be wrong so shoot me with a double clip
dang me this is too good

Proud member of the IBTC

Great idea author...best of luck

Beautiful!

cool

Well done, I didn't see anything right away, had to peak at your SBS = )

Very nice blending and looks realistic too. Good job!

You should remove the wire and replace the part where it goes through the leaves, it looks like there is no trunk at all. Also the colours are little bit off, the branches should be a little more brown/reddish in hue. The leaves should be either in behind or in front of the branch, not sort of see through.

nice...good blending...and shadows are also good...

good job

Nice work! I didn't notice some of the branches until i saw them in your SBS.

Beautiful ! Nice colors !

Good colours, and excellent focus.. really nice image

Beautiful capture!

Very nice. Might bump up the brightness just a touch

Is it from Texas?

Lovely

I think jawshoewhah does have some fantastic entries and I always respect his opinion, however in this case Author I completely agree with you and think your comment was very well considered. GL
No disrespect jawshoewhah

gud luck ....

gud luck .......

and then the comments return. Weird....

Just a suggestion, might make it less confusing was maybe use a black crayon instead but that's just IMO.

And a nice entry! GL!

Ooooooh! ok. yeah less confusing layout now. GL!

It's kind of confusing when the layout is like it is. I have no idea.

Why was my comment deleted?????

Better layout now but still confused as to the saying. Maybe someone else can take a crack at it.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The pot calling the kettle black. good one

Oh wow, I have no idea on this one.

I would suggest a better layout. It just looks kind of sloppy layered over like this and I'd just loose the numbers. If you put them in order from left to right it would be fine. I'll hold my vote.

k the shot is great we are all in agreement on that I think, but is your brother in law really wearing white tube socks while mowing the lawn?!