Hi all, I am a first time poster but long time watcher and an admirer of the work here. I decided to finally muster up the courage to ask for some critisism on a piece of work, called "The Enlightenment", that I posted in the Bryce gallery (with no response..hmm). However, the figure was created with Poser. As someone who has read a lot of the posts here I am sure honesty is all I will get. Thanks for your comments and opinions and keep up the awsome work. BTW,the idea was inspired by a tutorial. Can't remember off hand who it was but I did have him listed in creds. THNKS

my first thought was, too much blue.. the planet on the right needs more color, and I would make the ring more transparent. the planet on the left needs to be darker, not quite so illuminating. one last thing is too me the reflections seem a bit off.. maye the color of them.. anyway I like what you have so far and the things I mentioned above are just things that I would change. not that they would be better, but more of my preferences. Philip

look at all those typos...lol maybe tone down the horizon as well..

I think the blue theme works for this image. Not quite sure about the light beam looks like a mirror image from the horizon. Good idea. If you want to put more attention to detail then look at the ripples around the body! They do not appear to be effected by the body in the water. Good first post.

The rightside planet has light from the upper back, whereas the leftside world is lit fullface. If the waterworld and the 2 behind it are all lit by the same sun, the lighting should match as to source. If there is that much haze on the horizon, the reflection of the left world would be fuzzier near it. The column of light spreads out at the horizon as though it is behind the waterworld and the figure is in the reflection of it, yet with the figure lighted from the top, that doesn't seem to be your intention. The ring(s) needs to be noisier and more transparent... they are made of particles ranging in size from dust to small moons. I like the colors and the overall composition is peaceful. Carolly

Onnetz, sabretalon and hauksdottir, thank you for your critiques on this work. I will definitly take everything said to heart and re work the composition with those suggestions in mind. If all goes well, I should have a post of the re work in a few days. Thanks again for your help.