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It's a lovely and serene picture, love the detail you've put down on the sky and grass.
Just a couple of critiques:
People:
I do like that by being next to one another (and the tail entwined, daaw) we know they're a couple of sorts, the other thing that bothers me about this is that normal people don't leave their hands straight down on the sides like stiff statues. If they were too shy to begin with (hence the back tails entwinement), they could just be standing a bit further from one another, they could wrapping their arms around themselves to fight the cold, maybe it'd be in the guy's pants pockets, the girl could be fiddling with her hair, little things. It's cool that there's a little bit of highlights on them from the light source (in this case the starry sky) but the girl seems to lack any in her hair and looks more flatter than her companion. Also if there's highlights there needs to be shadows. There are plenty of coloring tutorials in the AH's library for you to check if you look around.
Composition:
Really good use of depth and perspective. But I'll agree with ~YumeDeli that the grass in front is pretty bright like something in the front of this shot was lighting them. The other reason why this doesn't help the picture is that it's brightness is competing with the couple (who ought to be the focal point of the picture, not the grass). The star stream is great and all, but unfortunately this diagonal element is only leading the eye away and out of the picture entirely! So far the eye can flow like this:
grass: bright against dark> eye follows the base of the picture.
people: colorful against dark> from the grass eye goes vertical
the moon: bright against dark> from people jumps to the moon Or
Star stream> bright blue diagonal> from people follows upward
But then it stops at that upper right corner and nothing is there to lead it back down to the grass or make the right side interesting. Another way of thinking about the problem is that the right side has nothing visually interesting. The left has the moon and people, the right doesn't have anything. The stars are so numerous and not really the focus so they don't count as a focal point. What you could do to break the dead space is put something on the right that would catch the eye but doesn't necessarily have to be bright. For example, putting a dark mountain or castle in the distance would definitely catch the eye (like, 'what's that dark object?) but after that, the eye would travel downward to the grass and the cycle of art appreciation goes all around.