this was a good idea.

Thx Twilight....

Too dark on the man below the shoulders. Especially since the helmets of the shoulders show a light source coming from behind the man, not on top...

so cool idea author...god luck

@ erathion : Thanks,my fiend. Enjoy.

A rather invalid comment if I do say so myself:

"Too dark on the man below the shoulders. Especially since the helmets of the shoulders show a light source coming from behind the man, not on top..."

Looks very well executed from where I stand. GL to you!

As he is in a city where the light can be coming from a variety of sources I don't there is quite as much of a problem here. Great image and an unusual take on the source!

Haha very comical! Love it, author! Very different from the rest so far that I've seen!

@ arca : Thx for your advice and comment.
@ JPDesigns : Haha...I was inspired by THE DARK KNIGHT.

Well done my friend...

Just show shadow of book by dodge tool, grass should be corrected as book placed on them and need to sharpen the stick.

Best of luck...

Book needs a shadow as well as the figure, and the shadow on the grass would be offset from the plane of the book. The edges would also be broken up by the grass shapes.

Yes, the book need appropriate shadows.

As the egg said, just lacks a few details like the book shadow. It kind of seems like you were half way through your project and gave up.

You might want to use curves for better blend, sometimes a lower oppacity helps too, 90-97%. You should also check the cutout of the umbrela, some edges need work. GL.

Reflection is wrong. You wouldn't see her hands, or the inside of the umbrella. Also, sitting off center like that, she'd be capsizing.

love the idea and the feel of ur image, agree with what greymval said about the blending and edges and also the umbrela reflection in the water is wrong u cant do mirror reflections by simply flipping the image there quite hard to do right but with water u have the advantage of doing a more distorted and vague reflection good luck

Wow, you guys are good. I'm not quite that observant yet. I fixed the edges on the umbrella and moved the girl towards the middle. I however remain truly challenged by the reflection of the umbrella and girl. I tried recreating a mock reflection fom the one rock and using those same steps on the umbrella but it just doesn't look right. Any other suggestions are appreciated.

OK, if curves/ transparancy didn't help, you should make some layers with the environnment colour and clip to your girl& umbrella( which should be desaturated a bit), overlay those and lower oppacity below 20%.
Be aware not to make her look dead , but to have the aspect that she is really in that cave, not in a studio with a background.
Light reflects on surfaces and gives them colour, but surfaces also reflect their color on other objects, influencing their hue - that's the motto of blending, lol.
PS: you could try to place some fog, not too much, if you think it helps the composition- you can find many tutorials about fog online.

Author idea is very nice execution too...To achieve better blending u could use some color adjustment layers...First on top u could create dark blue layer,blend mode set to overlay,opacity somewhere around the 30%,second layer should be dark brown,blend mode set to color,opacity between 20-40%. Watching the mood of the image main color is green,so u could use on top od the dark brown layer ,some kind of goldish layer,blend mode set to color,opacity up to 25% max,and finally dark green layer,blend mode set to soft light,with opacity in between 20-50% depends of what u want to achieve. That is just idea author...best of luck

Erathion's comment is not just an idea, those are clear instructions that should be engraved in stone or something. Too bad I can't add that comment to favorites.. I'll add the pic instead

Thanks for the fave... and the instructions. I'll try and do all that before voting ends. It was very specific which I love!

Nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. GL!

Just commenting from an architect point of view:
the counter-step ( for those type of stairs) is ussually 15-17cm which would be a bit more than Half of the man's Head. You could scale the guy to fix this.

The man should not be that much bigger....

Nice clean chop...GL

man size decreased , thanx for the comments !

Maybe made him too small now?

I don't know why, but this picture is scary. It looks like he's up so high, its making my legs shake (afraid of heights) lol. But to me it looks pretty realistic, they could be really big stairs...I've seen some before. Anyway, good job, author!

The lighting on the man is inconsistent with the lighting on the tank, and the man is too dark.

very nice entry author...best of luck

I dunno, it looks pretty realistic to me, kinda crazy, but real. I like it