my attempt at seascape comments for improvement welcome i find it so hard to make waves crash against rockd cliffs etc

Ulp...sorry I always get seasick. I can't figure out if you honestly don't know how good this is or if you're just pretending to be humble. This is very, very good.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

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"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

ive been using bryce about 5 weeks ,all ive done is read hundreds of tutorials and tried to apply them in the pictures

I'm so new at Bryce I wouldn't have any suggestions in any event, but I think this is terrific! Very realistic, incl. the crashing waves, and it really creates a mood.

Only suggestion I have is make the waves smaller, they look like 100 foot waves compared to the ship.

Don't change a thing! I've been here and seen this...I used to be in the navy. Believe me, there are such things a 100foot waves....Very good work. Regards The Bryster (Chris)

Oh I know there are, I've been in many storms in the Coast Guard.

Beautiful Work!

Attached Link: http://www.annsartgallery.com/Tutorals/seaspray/seaspray.html

I used to fly helos on tuna boats, know what stormy seas are like. Great image. I have a tut up complete with the .br4 file at the link above.

Its an old tut and looks kinda sucky now.

For a while I lived about a half mile from "Steamers Lane" in Santa Cruz, Ca. that looks alot like the coast you've depicted on an average day the waves could get to 20 feet. Under stormy conditions the breakers would spray the tops of the cliffs(apx 75-100 feet). The waves are fine - I'd say the ship should be alot bigger, closer to the foreground. But then you have a whole new set of problems as the ship becomes the subject of the scene. wakes, seaspray, list, draft, apparent wind direction and texturing the ship. either way it looks to me that it is the ship that is too small. Very good for a first attempt.

Biker: I would disagree. The ship looks like a 3rd Class Man o' War which would make it pretty damn small by today's standards. I think there is a general misconception about old sailing ships. They simply were'nt that big. And even if you wanted to change the ship for asthetic purposes the scale and perspective should remain the same. No disrespect - no offense. It's just my opinion. Chris

cshaftoe: Everyones sense of perspective is different I guess. If you're ever in San Francisco, you should tour the Balcutha, an old commercial three masted ship. You'll get a good sense of the actual size of those "small" ships.

Biker: My last ship was the 66,000 ton Quenn Elizabeth 2. Wanna talk about 'small'? LOL

I would imagine that swells in a storm like this can get pretty big. When several ships are traveling together in a storm you sometimes crane your neck pretty good looking from one to another as one goes down into the trough of a swell while the other goes to the crest. The storm I was in didn't look as bad as this one. Oh, I almost forgot. Great job!!!