Nice atmosphere, good colour. No need to put too much more into this.

Try narrow spotlight beams from  above shining through your media.

Mick

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"Richard Dault" <a20### [at] homecom> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'll start off with a bit of history about myself since it's my first
> message on povray.org.  I've been reading this newsgroup on and off for a
> while now, but lately, it's become more regularly.  Although this is my
> first posted image, I was introduced to raytracing about 7 years ago when
I
> wrote a raytracer for my graphics course at University.  So this is not my
> first render.
>
> Now about the image.  I got inspired by all the sunshine media images and
> decided to try one underwater.  I'm still not happy with it yet because
when
> I get the sunbeams, the rest of my colours seem to washout.  Also, there's
> nothing breaking up the beams which makes them too constant.
> The big picture is my first try at it, and the smaller one has sunbeams in
> them (although they might not be very visible at that size).  You'll
notice
> the difference in the colour of the sand and ball.  I've been trying to
find
> the happy middle, but I haven't succeeded yet.
>
> Fortunately, the fish look good from far, because if you saw them up
close,
> you'd laugh at how simple they are.   The metallic sphere is just there
for
> looks and my attempt at a rust texture.  I guess it fell off a boat.
>
>
> So far, it's still kind of bare.  I have some ideas of things to add when
I
> get the chance.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Richard
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