Great visuals Babumoshai! For a change, I see crayon work on the canvas!! Makes a fantastic image. However, I think you could crop about 300 pixels from the bottom half since I don't see too much value add in that.
I was very eager to see your Chambal images and this sets a very good start. I couldn't do anything much at Chambal... not even one decent image I guess... You have already set a benchmark now!

Abhisek, love the image however it gives me more of a digital art feel - may be my personal taste. I kind of think treatment of grains in color and B&W may need a different scale, may be color is less forgiving than B&W - just my thoughts.

Like the composition but am too not sure of the grains in colored images. I think grains play their role better in monochrome images, but I would love to know why you thought of adding grains in this image.

like the experiment here..abhisek, the colour palette is refreshing and pleasing., i do find the blues a little overpowering, maybe a little bit of cropping at the bottom would reduce that.
now that its been pointed out..would be nice to see the image without the grains.. a learning for all of us.?

i love the color palette here Abhisek. There is something about blue juxtaposed with brown that always appeals to me. When i first saw the image (you'd posted one and reposted, i think?) i noticed the grains and i agree with everyone here that sans grains might look more appealing.

Love the image, though ... especially the bars on the heads. the lines in all three colors echo the shapes, enhance the effect of motion.
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As Ganesh says, this is tending towards a digital art ... what do you say Abhisek ?
-RD

Thanks everyone for your views...It helps to define what can be the acceptable levels of manipulation in a color image...

N'Da... the image without the grains was not giving that dreamy feel that I wanted to render...hence thought of going with the grains to make it visually more pleasing...have not used grains in color much...guess it wud take some time before I learn to handle it moderately without rendering the visual in the genre of digital art...

Thanks, Abhisek

I don't think you we will be able to define what is acceptable. The beauty is we will know when it goes beyond Every one of us may have different scales though.