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This is a great start to a lovely manip, there are a few things that caught my eye though.
Grass is a tricky thing to get right when adding an element into the midst of it, at the moment the dress cuts off in a relatively straight line, in reality, it would disappear into the grass stems in a much more "natural" blend as the grass stalks/stems get thicker towards the base. It might be worth seeing if you can add some more of the grass on an new layer over the top of the dress highlighting individual stems like on the left of the image to give a better sense of depth.
Lighting looks right again up to the point where we get to the grass in the foreground, here should be a much more defined shadowing effect as the light is appearing behind the model, therefore casting the shadow into the foreground and from how much contrast there is in the rest of the image, should be quite pronounced.
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Hope that helps!
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Fantastic! But yo could make the light better though. In the image it is coming behind her, but she is lit from the front. May want to fix that...
But otherwise, awesome work!
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I love this piece. Strength of purpose is portrayed.
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I know I don't have the "rights" by not being a paying member to critique, but here's my two cents. For myself personally, the lighting angle by which you have your model lit (may not have been a model you photographed yourself, maybe stock image?) is incorrect in comparison to the light source in the image over all. The lighting on the model appears to be from slightly behind, fairly high angle, and to the right based on her body casting it's shadow on her right arm. The source of light should be out of frame for it to appear correct. I'm a literalist when it comes to artwork, so if you were going with something in a particular style other than photo-manip, then it is easily over looked. The grass could be easily copied, cloned, pasted as a new layer in front of your subject matter in order for it to blend better, too. Just two quick fixes, and it would look great. Otherwise, I would try to overcome the lighting aspect/perspective by placing some of the sun light/god rays dinstinctly over your subject, giving the impression that the light is pointed directly at her. Maybe even hiding the face, somewhat, from view? Right now it looks fine to the untrained eye, but we were all there once, and trust me, I've been doing this stuff since I was 4, I'm 40, and STILL learning, and finding mistakes in my own stuff, LOL! So play with it some more and see what you come up with.
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Absolutely FANTASTIC!! 
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I like this piece and I noticed her hand and the hilt of the blade seem to fade into the cloud. You may want to fix that up a bit. But other then the skirt I think you did a really great job at this. Keep practicing ^.\\
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