I'm a fan of vibrantly colored scenes, but this scene lacks color variation. If you look at nice colorful foliage you will notice it's not all just one shade, but they are made up of slightly different hues working together. For example grass can have tones ranging from green to yellow-green, maybe even some hints of blue.…
Hey Ryper, just a little tip for metallic surfaces. It´s not the diffuse that gives the "color". Try to use a very dark diffuse and a very bright specular to get a metallic look. Here is a little example I made to explain this better: As you can see, to get a gold like surface, I use a diffuse which is nearly black, but my…