Lighting and Mood

Originally I had intended for my boat to be placed in the middle of the ocean in broad daylight. I had lighting set up, and the shaders I used had some lighting with them. Although I wanted more and only had a few shadows on the boat and I wanted something a little more, also thinking it would be good to create more complex lighting. After fiddling around with adding rays of the sun and lights on the boat, I ended up deleting a lot of my lighting for various reasons. Although this then created a different effect, I had a nightime scene going with dark water and it created a more surreal effect that I liked. I added some more lights to reflect off the water and make the scene more interesting. At this point I had to stop due to time constraints, so I did not have great lighting but I had something that could make a somewhat interesting scene and meet requirements, so I could move on to taking pictures.