Wow! Amazing job! GL

awesome

Great, great job! My only suggestion would be to darken the really bright bit behind the spire on the left, because it;s a bit distracting. Good luck, and high marks!

Nice creation, I might have put the ending of the wire (attached to the elephant) behìnd the tower, so that it looks more like the island with elephant is further away. Good luck!

I hope you like the changes!! thanks for comments!

cool

nice surreal feel... .love the sky GL.

Very cool image! I like the surreal feel to this piece. Great job, good luck!

Great, great, great! I just love surreal images and besides your amazing compositon, the colours are great too. I love blue You did really a very very good job! Good luck!

Pretty cool.

congrats for the 1st.

Congratulations for 1st, superb pic

Yes! Congrats for your first place!

Congrats, awesome work

Congrats!

Woow!! first place!! thanks everyone for all your comments, views and votes, I have a great family here!!! Thanks!

Congrats!

Very nicely done, but for some reason it looks like it's floating. I suggest darkening the bottom gradually to make it look like a shadow. Good luck!

Awesome! *favs it* There are three castle entries in this contest, but I have to say, your entry is the best! But I think you need to add some shadows to it. GL

Looks pretty ok. The middle part is maybe a bit too massive (all grey-ish), while there's perspective. So add some light there where's needed (since the light comes from left, the side in front with the windows in perspective should receive light). Also, dont just copy-paste one window in perspective for all windows, cause you see it doesnt fit well. You may want to look again at the half masked tower right on top (why it's masked like that?), but for the rest well done. Good luck!

Good work !! .. but im may be even better if you use some filters.. to make it look more realistic !!

The plane (wall) to our right of the door should be lighter. Listen to what the other commenters have said, and good luck...pretty nice job!

The photo is blurry but the castle is really sharp; you may want to blur the castle, especially the middle a bit. Also it looks like some of the trees on the right should be overlapping the castle as they're out in front. Finally the hedges on the bottom of the castle make it look like it's floating but I'm not sure why.

pm me and ill talk about this with you............great concept, i have a few suggestions

i darkened the bottom , added some highlights and blurred.thx for comm, they really helped

The lighting looks much better and the castle is no longer floating, so good job on both those points. The contrast, however, is very high around the towers but very low in the center part. Also the shadows aren't dark enough, and the castle itself isn't casting any shadows.

wow,this one amazing,so nicely done and good detailing

great entry, but i think some of the building part is flying.. give some shadows pal

the light is coming from the left. where i should put the shodows? (i think the shadows are in the back of the castle)

That looks really good, great job author.

Good improvements, author. The castle has way more depth now. Good luck!

thanks for comments and suggestions.

Very good blend.

Congratulations for 2nd, great

Congrats for your second place!

Congrats!

thank you all.

Congrats!

Nice one Try to blur the ship, it's in the distance and the water is blurred. Besides that a tip: use a small soft blurbrush (max 50%) and trace the edges of your blends, it's a 5 minutes job but it will make everything blend in. But nice mood and nice colors

You're missing the brick texture source on the lighthouse. This is a good concept...you should remove the white edges on top of the light house, dim the beam just a bit, and add the missing link.

Thanks for the tips I will make some changes!! and thanks CMYK46 for reminding me about missing source

I hope you like the changes!!

I like the mood. Good job

Yes author I like the changes

The colours are great! I like the whole composition and the feel of it. Very good job! Good luck

Good image.

Great mood!

Congratulations for 3rd too

And also congrats for your third place!

Congrats!

Woow!! Thanks, now I'm in level 10 and I can participate in all contests!! that gives me more options,I hope to earn myself every day!!

Congrats!

I like your idea. The horse looks a little big to me. Also it has a funny looking shadow as well as looking a littl cut and pasted(look athe the horses feet)

Good work. The knight is very sharp compared to his surroundings and should be blurred a little to match. The masking is also a little off around the horse's feet and at the tips of the towers on the castle. The shadow could also probably be a bit darker. Cool idea and image though!

Nice work - great job with the reflection, but yes, i think the horse is way too big. Good luck!

Very cool! The only thing is the fog where the castle is. It's too straight. It should be more cloud-like. Great job anyway GL

well done !! I think the caste is a bit to detailed (you can blur it a LITTLE bit) but anyway, great work !!

Nice pick of sources. Castle is not bad, but if you can play a bit with liquify for the lower towers you can fix its perspective a bit more (make the lower roofs less round, because you dont look as much against it as the taller towers). Good luck!

The haze should slightly fade the entire castle to make it look like it's far away.

well put together combination of images

no the horse is not too big...look at the source image, however in the over picture the mounted knight and horse do seem large, author I like the way you have the reflction of horse and knight in the water, overall not bad

like the idea... nice image.. needs a little work to be a great image. GL

wow nice .very nice idea.i feel the castle is too blurred,may be to create a far awaz effect.overall good work

Too bad I saw that too late. Love it! Wonderful concept and idea.

need to solidify the base if you want it to look real.. but it's a neat concept (the translucent base makes it look like it begins in the clouds.. but if that was your goal.. more power to ya

Put some more clouds at the base so the tower doesn't look like it's disappearing...
EDIT: Much better!

Much better.. good luck!

It's fantastic! However, if it's a lighthouse you should probably put a light at the top. Also instead of making the tower become transparent you should make multiple cloud layers gaining opacity on top of it.

Pretty cool! It doesn't really look like a lighthouse, but it's still great! GL

Great idea. I think that it would be more accurate if there weren't clouds at the top of the picture since the lighthouse is meant to be higher than clouds. Maybe you should also try to make the sky a little darker (with a gradient) at the top to show that it's really high.

Nice job, author! Rather captivating...

flying boats would have put this over the top for me. well done as it is

great pic.

the coloring is really good, only the bottom part of the tower looks a bit "unreal". love it otherwise