I love your entry but it needs one more adjusting, the planet in source 8 is someone elses photoshop work and you cant use it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginedreality/170835601/in/photostream
also wheres the uncut photo of the girl? the on in the steps already has it cut.

I do love this image, the colors and the composition, the subject. its just fantastic great work and yes please do see this in highres its definately worth it.

OH THANKS ELADINE!!! I didn't even notice that, I'll get on replacing that planet right away! Also, I'll have to dig up the original photo too, I didn't save it unedited in the file I worked on. I may have to go back to the raw file and redevelop one.

And thanks Nator I might mess around with that a bit

I can just see this in poster format or in the postcard racks... you know those postcards with the special metalic printing? this would be so nice with that. beautiful work.

OH YES!! I know exactly what you mean about the metallic printing, that would be SO AWESOME!
Thanks again for your help! I ended up using the same moon picture used for the middle planets, to remake the one in the corner. I think it looks much better now anyway
Also I added the original pic to my SBS.

@ Nator, good suggestion, I made her a bit more "glowy" and added some more smoke and little glowing particles!

People should check out the hires before voting. It's really a treat at high res. Nice work as usual author!

Thanks pixelkid!! And yes I feel like this piece doesn't have the same impact in the smaller image as it does in hires

That's a wonderful image..love the idea and the result..hi res is a must see..Great job author!

well done ! fav!

Nothing much to say, fantastic as usual

Nicely done, author!

THANKS everyone!!!

gratz well deserved!

Congrats Rob , beautiful work

THANKS EVERYONE

Congrats for the gold!

THANKS!

The egg shell fragments need better (longer) shadows, given the light & shadow on the eggs. Otherwise a good image.

very very creepy!!! Love the feeling, good luck author!!!!

Thanks a lot fof the comments and suggestion...@Bob i made some changes on the eggshell shadows...i made them longer and a bit stronger...Once more thanks for the good suggestion...

Beautiful image. Good work on light and shadows.... The baby dino looks cool. Good luck!

haha the little raptor looks like he doesn't want to come out ... great image author

Very creepy... and well done!

very nice work

Love the mood of this piece. Creative and cool. Thanks for contributing such cool stuff author!

Thanks a lot for great comments guys...

Super work.

Congrats, erathion!

congrats!!

Congrats !

Congrats!!

Congrats

I wish I hadn't missed this when I could vote ... I would have given it VERY HIGH marks but none the less ... it is incredible!!!

Beautiful... If it wasn't a seagull, I'd say it was the Holy Spirit.

Nice concept, for some reason the nest seems to be off perspective to me, the first thought i got was that i was really far away, then i noticed it was on the branch, maybe you should remove from of the intense light placed on the bottom part.

awesome entry!

I really like this but I have to agree with akassa the composition makes it look as if the branch is heading miles out to sea (unless thats the intention), maybe a little blur could be used on the parts of the image in the distance to bring the nest back.

thanks for the comments guys...

I have to disagree with the perspective issue. I think it depends on how you're looking at it... but I have made changes to the light on the bottom of the nest, and fixed a few issues with the actual nest re the placing i.e. the bottom left corner... was infront when it needed to be behind the branch...

as always your comments are much appreciated

very nice...

great job, love the color and the mood

very... very nice job. I realy like it ;D The color balance is perfect and it looks so mythical. Congrats!

Your light sources are all over the place. The bird is lit from the left, there is a sun on the right behind the rocks, the clouds are lit from above right, and the light rays coming from the nest aren't illuminating anything...Good concept, CLEAN lines, but you need to consolidate the lighting and make it consistent.

MossyB: I think you are getting your left to right mixed up... the rocks are lit from the left hand side with the shadows on the right hand side exiting the frame... the sun is highlighting the central part of the clouds, highlighting the left rim ... assuming the sun is slightly off to the left also... so the lighting direction with regards to the rocks is fine...
so based on the sun being on the high left it's safe to assume that there would be a light source illuminating the birds on the left... if you look at SBS I added light to the face side of the gull as light from the nest... the rocks needed no adjustment as the light from the nest is also on the right... and as for the nest not illuminating anything... its illuminating the branch the gull and the two gulls hovering above... please refer to the sbs guide... step 6 explains the gulls
Thanks for your comment

I like your work... a lot! It's always moody and magic!

The atmosphere is right there, excellent work.

so familiar with this kind of tone,......always great work by you....!

Indeed, your work definitely has style, and I like that. Another great piece.

Beautiful.

Thank you for your comments! I edited the entry a bit, i lowered the opacity on the shadows and adjusted some of the lighting. Thank you all for the encouragement

Lovely surreal image!

Congrats for your third place, Matteo!

congrats,.....you are master of lightning.....

It's you again . Congrats !

Congratulations, Matteo! "Mr. Mood"...

Congratulations, again for 3rd

Congratulations, Matteo!

So, if I peel a tennis ball, I get another one of another color... great!

Nice job, as always author!

EDIT: not who I thought you were

lol ... to I wondered, because i haven't been on here long enough for people to know me