Well I tried some fog and it destroyed the contrast in the upper part of the 
image, the effect is still there but it's turned down so low it's hardly 
visible. I agree though, I need more atmospheric effects between the camera 
and the volcano, I'm hoping that when I add steam from all the 
lava-snow-water interactions it will look right.

BTW thanks for the snow-lava reference, I had failed to find any. I assumed 
that snow couldn't get that close to lava so I was going to completely 
remove snow in the surrounding area, but now I think I might keep it fairly 
close but with lots of melting/steaming effects... Or I'll hide it all 
behind a plume of steam where it pours into the sea...

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Tek
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"Kevin Wampler" <wampler+pov### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message 
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> This is coming along quite nicely!  Other than things that other people 
> have mentioned, there are a couple of things that strike me.  First I 
> would guess that there's be some snow melt bordering the lava flow. 
> Currently it seems like the lava borders the snow directly and I think 
> this is what makes the lava flow look "pasted on" to me.  I looked for an 
> image to confirm this, but this was the best I found, and it's not a 
> particularly clear picture of it:
>
> http://www.spring.net/marci/Public/Hawaii/LavaOnSnow.jpg
>
> It's also possible that the scene could benefit from some haze.  Other 
> than the smoke plume itself, the air is very clear.  Part of this I 
> imagine is because it gives a really nice contrast in the upper part of 
> the image, but perhaps some small amount of haze could still help without 
> destroying this effect.

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