Flying Ship

My professor figured out what went wrong with the render on my flying ship.  I had, inadvertantly, put a displacement map onto some of the metal surfaces.  As soon as I removed that, my renders worked a lot better.  I put a photograph of the Pleiades behind it and lit the model.  First in a dramatic silhouette.

And then with a lot more fill lighing.

Not bad for a beginner, I suppose.