How is this ironic?

Maybe it's me but can you explain how this is ontheme author? I don't see it but you can convince me I'm wrong

Reminds me of photos by Anne Geddes, very nice entry author , was wondering if it wouldn't look better if you'd rotate it 90 degrees.

I agree with Ponti, besides that the overall uni color is kinda boring, the shadow of the tree comes down flat while it should follow the curve of the sphere.

Author I think you should give the hydrant the same blur as the dog, they are about at the same depth in the image. Another tip for the dogs hair: they look a bit hard edged... maybe try if this works: open a new layer on top, select a small blur brush (3 or 4 pixels) then check "select all layers" on top in PS and go over the edges of the hair. You'll see they'll blend much nicer that way, it's worth the time you put in it.

But it's up to you, it's your image.

Very pythonesk (for younger audience google Monty Python), expecting a foot above it every second to crash it

superb entry!

To be honest I don't think the blue lightning works well... it makes the cookie look like it is 15 year overdate
The blue background is nice though.

I think a small light border inbetween will make this more interesting, for the fast viewer it might look like 1 photo, besides that it will make the emotions come out more.

Almost scary how the girl looks straight into the camera, don't know why but make me think about the movie "Lost in Translation".

Congrats! Great job and would love to see more of those in the future!

Love it
A common sight we can see everywhere in public transport but when frozen in time it starts to tell it's own story. Just this one shot can fill a book. Are those kids traveling alone? Where are they going or are they coming back? Who's the person next to them? Is the boy on the right just bored or looking for help...
The image raises more question then it answers and that's good.

Think you got the idea author.

I really love the foreground and the reference to Magritte, but maybe you can do something about the background? It doesn't feel right to me and it's such a shame compared to the foreground.

Funny idea but the perspective on the sign is to strong compared to the car, you might want to correct this.

I love the flowers on it, is there a blue version too? It will make the wife happy

I don't care what camera and stuff itsmymoment has, I want the same camera and stuff you have author!

my first fav in the photocontests!

Have to agree it's busy, the perspective lines go allover, the background, the statue, plant and the book are unnecessary, furthermore I do not understand the candleholder in this which should act like some kind of ink jar.

The idea with the feather, an inkjar and writenpaper is good. Take just those (find some small glass jar which can act like a inkjar) and see what you can do with them. It's just my suggestion to you, up to you if you agree or not

Looks good but I have 3 things which might improve this:
1. the bubbles... looks like you used some glasslike structure for them, another structure might work better. They are a bit too dominant ATM.
2. you forgot the metal rim around the hole where the plug comes from
3. maybe the perspective is a bit to strong, it shows f.i. on the tiles

It's a nice effect but would have been much better if it wasn't a complete filterwork, try to stay away from filters and try to make this effect yourself.

To be honest If I were you I'd keep the original entry for my personal portfolio (I liked it better) but also think you made the right choice to change it for this contest. Think you have to search for a photo which has got motion blur on it and see how that looks like on a photo, it will give more a blur trail.

think it is more recognisable now what is flying there

Author I have to be honest that it took me 5 minutes too to actually see what was flying there (and I watched the SBS a couple of times and wondered how you used the sources). Somehow you have a kind of visual illusion here, either you see it or you don't

Nevertheless I really like this entry, visually it is good, has some mystery in it and makes you want to look again. The motion could be a bit better, looks like she's photographed with a stroboscoop now, if there would be anything you want to improve I'd say have a look at that again

I really like the top part of the entry but the bottompart could still need some attention. The doves are distorted, the edges are to rough and (mentioned before) the perspective is off.

Take some time to mask the original doves and replace those with the once inhere, use a soft small brush as a blur tool and blur all edges on a new layer (first take out the black edges). This would give you a much better image IMHO and you might do it and 30 minutes.

And maybe add a nice background to it? You might have a potential top 3 entry here so it might pay out to give it more time.

Maybe straighten the horizon?

Congrats, a well deserved first place

O gee this should be a mastercard ad! It's priceless!

Yes off course he'll be a mod! Great blending author, it's almost scary :lol:

Nice image but IMHO it is to much oversaturated and the blending is a bit to harsh. What I would do is take the final JPG, duplicate the layer and desaturate the new layer. Then blend it with multiply, this will give (in my opinion) much nicer colors. About the harsh blending: take a small (2 or 3 pxl) soft blur brush and trace the outside of the woman. This will make it more 1 image. Offcourse it's up to you author

Congrats on your 3rd place

Congrats on your 2nd place

Congrats on your 1st place

Congrats on the 1st place, absolutely the best entry ever on PXL to me.

Great entry and superb use of the doll reference image!

Looks better now author

Please take it easy with the lensflare, sometime less is more.

Try using the pentool to mask images, an eraser isn't really suited to do this. There's loads of tutorials on masking and would improve this image so much

just flipped it horizontally?

Great image but a nitpick from me, try to get the lines straight, rotate it a 1.8 degrees to the right and it's perfect.

I love the idea, but maybe some ideas to improve? Hair is always diffecult to do, try to make the layer with the hair you added a bit transparant and then blur it with a soft 5px brush (make a new layer for this and make sure you blur all layers, check the box on top).

Furthermore you could try to warp the mouth a bit so it looks like she's actually blowing.

Like I said they are just ideas, GL on your entry.

Author, the fact I'm a mod doesn't mean I'm asking to see the original as a mod. I'm a graphic mod and am just a member in the photocontests. The reason I asked is just pure interest and part of my learningcurve.

Please do not be offended.

Would be great to see the original photo

Remove the reflection of the balloon, the balloon is in front of the water so it can never give a reflection IN the water, a shadow: yes. Furthermore there's a reflection of a cloud which should be behind the mountain not in front of it.

The overall mood is good though.

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Good improvement author

Look smuch better now author

Almost perfection!
If you still can adjust the reflection I'd say make it a bit shorter then the body is; technically is the reflection further away from the viewer which makes the reflection a bit smaller then the body.

the reflection of the underside of the bench could use some improvement. If you take the perspective in account the dark part of that part of the reflection might be twice that broad. There's also 2 little white spots beside the darkside of the umbralla you might want to remove... Looks like I'm whining but I really like this image

you could just remove the reflection of the head author, you've put it far to high up in the reflection, it should be somewhere covered with the leaves. Where the head is now a reflection of the body and maybe some of the hair should be on place. For the rest: great job

Author try to use some blending mode (overlay probably), that will give you a much more realistic image in the end Good luck

Thanks so much for entering in this contest! You've made my mother in law VERY happy!
We've decided to make a photobook of all the entries as a memory!