Hello ,
my name is Chris, and im working on a space scene. The problem is I dont know what i should do with the empty room…
Maybe some of you can give me a little tip or inspiration.
Thanks! 
Knix
Mh, maybe add some meteorites? Or make the background more 3D?
it seems that you have way to many stars. but you have to know where your focal point should be.
maybe you could make a smal earth in the background or the appolo mission in the forgound.
or a rocket launching of the earth etc…
Thanks for the fast answers 
Yes a planet and meteorites sounds good. I wanted the milky way as a 360 degrees background image, but the only thing i got were tons of stars… I dont know how to move the background image so i can see the milky way 
Yes, far too many stars. In photos of space where the planet is visible and decently exposed most stars are far to dim to show up. Take a look at the photos of the Apollo landings; no stars are visible. So darken that a whole lot. It also looks like from the lighting of your scene that a nearby sun should be visible lighting it up. Maybe you could add that, or possibly some moons in the sky.
Alternatively, make the subject itself be a moon of a gas giant like Saturn, shift the composition down a bit and put a massive gas giant in the sky, slightly to the right would probably work best. Then colour the lighting to match that of the gas giant to make it look like the night side of the moon lit up by reflected light.
Hi Chris, based on your composition, the center of attention is the valley or just above it so based on that, perhaps an outpost with a craft coming in for a landing or taking off? Just a thought.
Knix , space IS rather EMPTY .
it seems that you have way to many stars.
NO , it dose NOT look like there is a ton of light pollution ( nor ANY city lights at all )
if anything you would be able to see the milkyway
something like this rendering of mine ( NOT using blender)
have a look at this GREAT photographers gallery
– time lapse and composites with “painting with light”
as stated above the Apollo FILM images had to expose for the BRIGHT SUN LIGHT surface and as such the stars are not visible
the film in the 70mm cameras was kodak B&W Pan-x 80 asa and kodak ectracrome 68 very SLOW film
by the 1980’s the asa was at 1000
For a VERY LOW LIGHT long exposure image like in the first post the stars WILL be visible !
Mh, maybe add some meteorites?
little mostly small rocks on the ground in craters will not be that visible
now IF there is a atmosphere !!! on this world then you might have some glowing meteor TRIALS from them glowing as they burn up in the atmosphere
but if there is NO atmosphere then there is nothing for the rocks( well SAND to pebble size rocks ) to burn up from
I think the best thing you could add would be some sort of lander or ascent vehicle, a modern day or near future equivalent of the apollo lunar landing module and ascent vehicle. This would give a scale to the scene and add some hard mechanical smooth lines to make an excellent contrast with the rugged rock and ice of your small moon/large asteroid, adding a craft like this would alos give some human drama.
As for the stars they would be visible if the camera was realy sensitive but they would not show up, atleast not so many would show up if the camera was taking a an ordinary length exposure of a scene with fairly bright objects in it. Look at photos from the ISS and the photos from the apollo mission, you can barely see the stars because the main elements of the scene (astronauts and lunar rocks for apollo/ shuttles, solar panels, soyuz craft, earth’s surface for the ISS) are so much brighterthat any camera sensitive enought to pick out all the stars would see the main features of the scene as a glared out mess.
However your scene is on a comet/large asteroid/small moon and these often have very dark coloured surfaces (those black and white pictures you see have been vastly brightened to make the objects look grey so viewers can pick out surface details), so in this case you might be able to see all those stars AND see the surface at the same time, both similarly bright, with the same camera. This will be the case if the surface is very dirty ice, nearly black to the human eye, as seen on many comets, clean ice (like Europa)would probably be bright enough that it would outshne the stars a lot, rock (Like the Moon ) would be somewhere in between.
Thanks for the feedback Ideas poping up my mind, and i will realise them in near future (I hope)
I thought of a rocket in the middle on the asteroid/moon whatever. I will work on the stars and the brightness of “the rock”.
Maybe i will add some fog to make it look more atmospheric.
Thanks again, have a great day everybody ( and sorry for my english)
Knix