===== From elvish_archer@mailcity.com: good angle for taking the picture but if u place the 'capsules' near the surface u must added some light from the surface, texture for the ground is cool man ! and for the bubbles are so funny that have a shadow on the window. ===== From pbourke@swin.edu.au: Good idea but the result isn't that convincing. Too many strangely coloured objects. Perhaps more time getting a good feel for being underwater and less time on little objects.... ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Nice image... parts of it looked artifical, like the fish...something about the placement of the objects... not sure how to say it. ===== From tony@j4tb.com: Good atention to detail ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: I certainly do not want to burn my monitor and eyes by turning up my monitor's brightness and contrast to max. I usually operate at 50% brightness and 70 to 90% contrast depending on the sun light in my room. You're not the one who's going to dictate what I may use, I'd rather avoid giving that type of advice if I were you as it tends to annoy people. Besides, at those settings most images submitted to the IRTC are perfectly well balanced, very few are (way) too dark. What I may do is change the brightness and contrast of the image using some software so I can see something, but pity for you as it tends to slightly decrease the quality of the image. An interesting concept, but not very artistic. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Very nice... a lot of small details which help the scene a lot. The fish in particular look very good. The blueness of the background doesn't seem to blend into the foreground... there's a very abrubt transition. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: I knew who had produced this image on my first viewing when I saw how detailed it was:-) What can I say, excelent work and such attention to detail. But I'd expect it to be a bit darker under there, and with so much activity with the fish, plants and movement of the waves I'd expect to see lots of little unidentified bits floating around. The text file was far too long (though interesting), you probably could have got it down to about ten per cent of it's current size without loosing any of the information. The white coral has a very flat/2D look to it and doesn't really fit the rest of the image, this may have been caused by using an image map for this coral or maybe by having a very high ambient or difuse level in the texture compared to the other objects. Jacques Cousteau rooles, and why isn't he on the telly any more? ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: Excellent planning work. I like the documentation of your process. For image brightness, everybody's monitor is different. If someone sets the gamma different for their viewing, then it's hard to say that it is just contrast and brightness that need adjusting. You might try searching for "TV test patterns" or "monitor test patterns" on the web. You may even find instructions that you could use to adjust your monitor to your liking and be able to pass on some empirical data (the test pattern and instructions, maybe?) in a zip file that others can imitate. The image has a lot of vertically angled lines, which leads the eye off the page.