Critique Ring Comment -- I'm not sure what you trying to accomplish here. Were the dresses postworked in? I think if you were going for a sort of poster-art work you need to harmonize the vibrancy of the dresses and shoes with the rest of the scene. Either town down their saturation, or crank up that of the rest of the scene (make the sea really blue, the central figure's hair really orange.) I think that the gazebo wood is also too close, tonally, to the left and right girls' skin tones -- it might work in a more photorealistic render, but seems problematical here. I'm commenting on this image because it seems like you are really trying to do something different here. I've looked at several of your more traditional images and find them wonderful -- I applaude your attempt to try something "out of the box", and think that it is really neat.

Thanks, I wondered what went wrong. I started with an idea of capturing the vibrancy of Laverne Ross's Tribute (one of my favorite works), but I ended in trying to capture a vacation snapshot (hence fuzziness-- which I don't know if I like anymore).

I like it a lot!