Comment from Wrights Wow Pictures
Initial Impact 5.5
Does Title Match Picture? 6
Composition 5.5
Lighting 6
Creativity of Presentation 6
Story Telling Ability 6
Technique 6
Color Harmony 6
Focus or Clarity 6
Center of Interest 6
Notes 5
Overall Impact 6


Total 70
Average 5.833333333

Comments: A Cyber 5.5 is on your way. Good entry for the contest. Good luck. You have done well in the composition work. Good DOF. Great story telling, Good Focus. Good color. Great Artist notes. Thanks for sharing.

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you! I appreciate your review and your cyber six very much.

reply by Wrights Wow Pictures on 26-Jan-2012

You are very welcome

Comment from bushwacker
Wow, this represents a lot of work but the result is wonderfully magic. The girl is well placed in the picture and effectively merged, the other insects, horse less so. It is difficult if you want images to fit with each other to get the let direction and intensity just right along with shadows and overlap points. In this case it's fantasy and not an attempt at realism. Good job. I like it.

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much, I appreciate your review.

Comment from foureyes
Nice colors, and I like subject positions taken individually. However, I thought there was perhaps too much of a good thing here. Also, the blue and yellow critter bugged me. The wing is in front of the long leaf, as shown by hiding it, but it lacks the visual cues to show that it is a foreground object (larger size, sharper focus, etc.). Or perhaps it's that the objects to its right lack the cures to show they are in the background. The point is that it has an inconsistent look and given that I think there are too many elements here the easiest fix is to just take old blue-and yellow out of it.

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much for your throuought review and your input. I truly appreciate both; but I have a bit trouble to understand what you mean. You are right; the Butter-Fly [the blue-yellow creature] is indeed a foreground object in front of the plant. The Plant shows through its slightly luminescent wing. You say bigger size. That I do not understand. It is big. I thing the creature is humongous for a fly. It is nine times bigger than the Harlequin Wasp and has about the same size as the Rocking-Horse-fly. Just comparing the size of the two pound butter container, what build the behind half of its body, with a rocking horse, I think it may qualify by size as a fore ground subject, dosn't it? It is only slightly smaller than the Fire-Fly, who is also a front subject.Maybe that is a mute point anyway because physical parameter like size, do not apply in Lewis Carrolls Wonderland. Alice for example is changing her size frequently. The Perspective [dept] is also sometimes and/or for some objects out of order. The Mushrooms in this case are such subjects. There are three in the picture in a triangular setting. The perspective is reversed in purpose to feed the story. The smallest is in front of everything in the right lower corner. Diagonal of it left of Alice is a farther away and therefore bigger mushroom. The third and the biggest is slightly behind the Butter-fly and left of the Rocking-Horse-fly. It is a background object shown with the grass in front of it. It has to be the biggest because of the reverse perspective. I guess it is not for nothing that the therm Nonsense Stories apples for both, the Wonderland and the Looking-Glass story.
There is something else I do not quite understand what you mean. You speak of sharper focus. My English is maybe not good enough here, but for me focus is a therm applying to photography. Now The Butter-Fly is mostly painted. It is in the third layer account from the front. My Question is: How do I paint a subject in sharper focus? Could you please clarify that for me? Sorry it is impossible to take the old blue-yellow out of the picture since it is one of the many visual pun in the stories.

reply by foureyes on 26-Jan-2012

I will reply, but only briefly. How do you know whether an object is close to you or far away?

close: occludes more distant objects, large, details more distinct
far: occluded by nearer objects, small, details hard to see

Now, judging small or large is obviously dependent on what you think the object's real size is.

Yes, of course, the insect is larger than life size. But since we have no familiarity with insects so large (fortunately), we judge by relative size -- since it's about the size as the other objects we judge that it's at the same distance.

detail. if an object is farther away, a given feature looks smaller (takes up less visual arc) and becomes more difficult to perceive. There is a limit to how small an arc we can see, although it depends on e.g. contrast. Also, if distances are great, there is blurring as a result of light scatter, and of course this is extreme under hazy conditions.

Focus. This is related but not quite the same, because to some degree the eye like a zoom lens can choose the distance at which it sees most detail. It is true that the human eye has the ability to change its focal length rapidly and our mind to ignore what the eye isn't focused on. You can establish however that focus exists in what we see and not just the camera by holding your finger in front of your eye and looking past it at a distant object. The finger will be out of focus and I assume that what you can see you can paint.

I assume that in a painting you can show an object with more detail or with less detail, and with sharp lines or blurred.
In that way you can create distance cues.

I hope that helps, but I am a photographer not a painter.

Since the girl is in the foreground and in sharp detail, a way of indicating that something is in the background is to show it more blurred.

reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you for you very informative response and the time you are spending on the issue. I highly appreciate this.
I am affraid we were misunderstanding each other. I am sorry If I was muddling the issue with no clear formulations. I appologize. English is just a self tought language, not learned in school.
I do understand the technical parameter, I just could not make sense of the word focus in connection with painting. What you call focus,. is what I call perspective or dept of field. Focus is for me what is in that little red box in the view finder of a camera.
The other issue is that any and all of these parameters we are talking about, are out of order in Wonderland. Did you read the stories? I think it is not possible to understand the picture without knowing the stories. All physical facts, including distance, perspective, size even time do not apply in Wonderland. On top there are changes of the Wonderland parameters from square to square of the checker board. For Example: Perspectives are reversed, going toward an object will bring you farther away from it. If one wants to reach that object, he/she has to go in the opposite direction. Alice [the girl and main character] is rapidly changing her own body size between microscopical small and big as a house...etc...etc
How I could apply the rules of our world to a fantasy world like that. What happen in the picture are oxymoron's and visual puns just as in the book. That is why the mushrooms are supposed to look bigger in size how farther they are away, the Butter-Fly body is made from butter and the wings of a regular butterfly and the Fire-Fly is burning with real flames.
[The stories got the label 'Nonsense Stories' shortly after being published in 1898.]

Comment from blujdrawings
love your concept here
childs expression is second to none here
and effects are well done to make this piece all round a awesome shot

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you! I appreciate your review very much.

Comment from kimshinn
Such a creative fantasy land. Any child would want to run through the grasses and play with the animal friends!
Cool job!

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much! I appreciate your kind review.

Comment from Royal-USNR
You sure got my attention.
What a wonderful Creative idea? You sure put some work into this one according to your story. Well it certainly paid off. I really love the idea as well as the work upi did. Composition, very pretty little model, and the addition of her friends sure bring this whole scene together, and to life. Really well done, good luck in the Contest. Enjoyed reviewing it. Royal

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you! I appreciate your review and your kind wishes very much.

Comment from Delia1111
Wow!
What a lot of creativity went into this one! I like your nod to donkeyoatey, also.
I love the expression on the little girls face and how she holding her hands, a little apprehensive? I would be interested in seeing her expression, knowing all the extras are in the shot with her.
Thanks for sharing this.
Delia

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much for Your kind and encouraging review. Yes she is apprehensive. Usual I prefer to shoot without the knowing of my subjects, but in this case I told her. I wanted exact that impression. I think that is the emotion of little Alice, who is affraid of insects. I guess she feels that way talking to a Gnat the size [according to Carrolls original story] of a chicken.

reply by Delia1111 on 26-Jan-2012

:)

Comment from motogirl
Great imagination and the colors and clarity are wonderful tells a story not to mention the little girl is so cute good job

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much! I appreciate your review.

Comment from filly421
Like the combination of fantasy and reality.
you've composed it well here, with the little girl on the side, standing next to the big plant, and surrounded by all the insects/animals.
LIke how the color pops out of this picture, the backround of foliage and texture, and the solid colors of flower and girl/animals on it.
Nice ideas.
like how she holds her fingers, and looks tentative

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much! Yes she is tentative. Thanks for registering it. I think even an adult would be a bit tentative talking to a chicken sized Gnat flying around.

Comment from willie
Nice work!
This looks like a bad place to be! I think this would bother me to see all this! LOL! Back in my hippy days I think I did see things like this on a few acid trips! I like what you did with this! Good luck with the contest!

 Comment Written 26-Jan-2012

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reply by the author on 26-Jan-2012

Thank you very much for your review and the wishes! It is in the eye of the beholder if it is a bad place. Counts on it you like over sized strange insects or not. Alice is indeed a bit tentative; but who wouldn't; talking to [account to Carroll's original story] a chicken sized Gnat flying in front of him/her?