[akdavis]

Shaping up to be very beautiful. Is there any way to avoid all the surf breaking inside the lagoons (i.e. inside areas protected by the barrier reefs)? Most of this water should be shallow and still. Also, shallow areas seem to be going from blue to white with very little green in between, but maybe this is because of the surf? Clear water plus sunlight gives you a very true deep blue transitioning by depth and bottom reflectivity to pure green and even yellow/orange/red within a few feet of the surface (barely submerged living coral reefs often appear as a vivid brown-yellow to brown-red). In general, I would encourage not overly desaturating ocean colors. The ocean is one of those places in nature where you get very true and vidid colors under most conditions.


(that's living coral, not land)

Here's a great example of saturation. Note that the green is not overly saturated and is very much in line with your vegetation colors, yet the water has very vivid colors.



Same image with saturation increased 100%. Water hardly changes, but the vegetation now looks "postcard" green.



Anyways, hope that is constructive.