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Learning To Fly

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Beautiful work!
I like how the spray from the water adds an earthly sparkle that is mirrored in the sky - its a really nice effect :)

I have one suggestion if you'll have it :)
The dress looks very pretty with the sparkles, but I find much of the detail and form is lost because of the high Contrast. If you could play around with the filters/layer settings, particularly the one that makes the image transparent and lighter, it could really improve the interest and form of the dress. Try working on a duplicate layer and go through the Layer Styles until you find the one that makes it lighter + transparent. This will make the highlights and sparkles brighter and more pronounced, without disrupting the quality of the image :)

I had another suggestion to do with a shadow for the model, but on the cliff the surface is really bright to its kind of difficult. I think if you could darken down the brightest parts of the cliff beneath her, it would really help convince the viewer of a shadow. You could even try blurring the bottom of the model just where she touches the cliff, which would help darken and soften the shadow a bit. But honestly I know shadows on that background are very difficult to work with.

Anyways, this is beautiful (seriously) and I wish you the best of luck in the Contest :w00t:
Thanks for using our stock!
Dan