Posts by Belgarion

the first two and the last are very nice. especially the last one. Good work!

I believe these are being shot on a 10D, which wouldn't have quite as good noise reduction, but I'm still willing to bet these are being shot at ISO 800+

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Ah, well it didn't exactly look like that when I shot it.. mostly. When I processed the raw image I darkened the crap out of it, but also lightened it which caused very faint color to come out.. or noise. I'm not sure which, but I liked the result. A lot more interesting than flat white.

I've been looking around, but I haven't found an *easy* to read explanation of how shadowmapping works. Anyone care to explain or link me?

Maybe I should just put my photo equipment in my sig. I use a 20D with a Tamron 17-50 2.8. I use Photoshop CS2 for all my post processing (PP). These were all shot with the Tamron.

Some ok pics I took last week. Nothing really special, but there hasn't been a whole lot of activity lately. Plus it's the last opportunity for me to get some winter pics.

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Even DEdit (AvP2) was able to load processed lightmaps into the editor.

Yeah. People from IW, give me an answer!

wow, nice purchase. I've been wanting one of those for a long time, just never could convince myself it was worth it. The 5 disks of extras was very intriguing though. Just out of curiosity, are they the same disks that come with the special editions? I have the collector's edition of Aliens and it came with a disk dedicated to the making of, I'm wondering if that's basically the same disk.

10D is a pretty decent camera. I borrowed my uncle's 10D for a few months. In comparison to the 20D I found its controls to be very unintuitive, but it takes nice pictures. I hope you enjoy it.

The sooner you can get better glass the better. If you're going to be doing music gigs you should look into getting a 50 1.8 II. They are SUPER cheap and very sharp, not to mention very fast at 1.8. Of course you'll be limited to 50mm, but it's like 70USD so you can hardly say it's out of your price range. the only problem is that it's made entirely of plastic, so don't drop it. it'll fall apart.

If you're going to think about a different always-on lens, and you probably should, I suggest looking into a Tamron 17-50 2.8. That's the lens I use all the time on my 20D, and I used it on the 10D too. It's a fantastic lens. Sharp, light, and moderately cheap.

Now the only advice I think we can give you is to Have fun! I'm looking forward to seeing what you contribute to the photography forum.

Man that dod:s map looks wicked. one thing I noticed though, the changeover from grass to rocky hillside is uh, well the grass is very stretched.

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Average game.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However misguided as it may be.

*sob* why couldn't they make something beside F.E.A.R.? Haven't people had enough of fear? Not that Monolith isn't talented, I love Monolith. They made AvP2 after all. I'm just.. tired of FEAR. I suppose my friend will want to play it though.

Nice shots there blunkka. Lovin the nice white background and depth of field. #4 is probably my favorite. Good work.

You know, I really hope they make unique characters that are not copies of any character from Aliens. Of course that will be hard, and it's not to say that they can't be similar in ways, but it would be to their credit(GBX) to create something new in stead of recycling it. I don't really want to hear anyone say "That's it man! Game over man! Game over!" in that Hudson sort of way. I guess I'm just saying I want freshness and believable characters. Of course I'm looking forward to this game more than any other I've heard of for this/next year, maybe even in the last year too.

That's a pretty sweet place you found Jean. You were there at pretty much the perfect time for lighting. Good pics. I particularly liked 4 and 3.

Half-Life nerdism here is totally acceptable.

I just looked him up on wikipedia. apparently he was one of the big guys at gamespot. I'm not sure why it's huge news though.

Search is my friend I suppose.

:edit: psh. all I had to do was scroll down. I'm observant. I'm still excited.