Posts by e-freak

  • [DODS] dod_hillside_1944

    I do prefer action shots or still images, because it never happened to me that one of the players on a DoD:S Server stopped by and started gesticulating. A well placed sniper how ever or a Machine-Gun Nest tell a story I'll experience ingame.

  • My photo thread

    woha, interesting look. i like the DOF in there but the image composition is a bit confusing. He's on the left side of the pic and looking to the left so there's too much "wasted" (uninteresting) space on his right. Also I'd have gone further away for a half-total shot or closer to really only get the part above his armpit to avoid that high-contrast spot with the "white" background and the black shirt around it. Lighting is cool, no dropshadows, yet modelling the face very well. Don't know if you have a kicker set up in there - can't really see one, for the particular image I'd not even be sure if it'd work but might be something that can add additional depth. I like that you left alot of space above his head, really adds to the composition's proportions.

  • Satyre's photos thread

    Well your fotos look great but while you may enjoy doing PP to them I think you put too much weight into this. A good photo is more than just pressing the correct button in Photomatix. There are two tips I want to tell you: 1) Try to work out correct camera setting for one-time exposure, considering you are using a Polefilter, in most cases you wouldn't even need any PP for correct sky-blue, just the correct angle, shutter-speed and whitebalance. 2) If you want to do PP (which is completely legit and nearly everyone is doing it anyways), try to find out what changes and why it changes and try to do this by hand in Photoshop (or your software of choice). By working pixel by pixel, region by region through your image you encounter alot of details you would most probably haven't noticed otherwise, can really give the image your own stamp, your identity (not just some color presets) and you will learn a thing or two about perception of the human eye as well.

    That said, the shots are nice as they are but I think you could work on your choice of perspective (and corresponding on your choice of lenses). If there's enough place around you may want to shoot that church from further away with a larger zoom extended to help the image lines (in this case vertical lines) flow more parallel (the obilisk in the foreground is bowed to the right due to short f-stop, don't know the exifs but I'd bet that's around 22 mm), while the windmill is shot from too far away (imho and I don't know if another perspective might have ruined the shot), but considering the large blades and the fence as foreground element, I think you could have shot from further below and closer range with a shorter f-stop too help the decreasing width of the mill and the length of the blades. I don't know the locations and I can only imagine different angles so you might just not listen to what I just said but might keep the general idea in mind.

    On the borders: The point I tried to make about the borders was that you may want to chose one layout for all of them and use this very layout for every of your pictures too help create a coherent style in your presentation (the pictures them selves shouldn't need any kind of border anyway, you can always just place a LoB (large on black) link).

    Keep up your good work (it's good work, the text above is just too long ) and post some more of your shots

  • Battlefield 1943

    wait BF1943 is a graphical updated 1942 (using it's gameplay but Heroes Engine?) or is it Heroes with "serious" graphics (using the BF42 graphics?).

    Whatever: Game looks great in respect to what BF42 did, not sure about the 24 players limitation though. I'm with warby though: What's the matter with EA/DICE releasing every patch/update/graphic mod as an own game dividing player bases? They would at least sell the same number of copies if they give free updates to theyr games, because the player base numbers would explode... (Steam support would be nice too!!!)

    Bad Company looks cool but I never got around to play the first one and always just enjoyed the trailers...