Composition landscape

[rh084]

This is a composition landscape that I've been working on for a while now. Its one of my first compositions but from time to time I made small enhancements to it. I would like to know what u think of it and how I can make this even a better looking landscape. I find it hard to adjust the lightning to make the image more realistic. I also don't know exactly which techniques to use to place the shadows and lightning in the correct position.
Any comments will help me a lot thx :mrgreen:

 

[Inkz]

I like this comp. How many images did you use in total?

Anyway, here's a few tips to help improve.

 

[mattmorz]

And I guess the birds were too big

 

[Curodine]

It looks real nice But maybe to make it more realistic you could use a lens flare to recreate the sun in the left-upper corner of your image. And also to make the "whole" effect more realistic you could add a bit more brightness & contrast. And you could also add a nice looking gradient map to make the feeling just a bit more "real". And as Inkz already said you'll need to blend the balloon a little bit more in with the image.