Posts by JeanPaul

A majority of my time I've taken seriously as a photographer has been spent setting up shots using models where I can communicate with the subject and direct as I need. However, the next big artistic step I need to take in order to continue/improve in that genre is a big one therefore I wanted to try something new to get myself shooting again before I made this step. About two years ago I was in a situation that had me living within an hour train ride to NYC for a few months so I decided to dedicate a few of those days to exploring NYC with my camera. I already knew a little bit about street photography when it came to the general idea behind the concept as a whole but I had never actually gone out and tried it. So, I went out on the streets of Manhattan and just started shooting whatever I found interesting. I purposely tried all the various ways to capture a street image (candid, ask permission, wait in one spot for a while, etc) and quickly realized how large of an impact the events leading to the creation of a photograph have on the photograph itself. In those few days I managed to capture about 2-3 "good" images but I noticed something a little different about my emotional response when I captured a good street photograph. It had a little more magic - a stronger sense of awe. It was as if I had captured something impossible to both predict and recreate. Being drawn to this feeling, I decided to try a street project.

Before embarking any further into this idea I spent a lot of time researching street photography. It didnt take long to notice the large amount of morality and ethics in this genre but this was something that clicked with me as I consider myself a bit of a photo purist in certain aspects of photography. (Landscape orientation only, 35mm lens only, no cropping ever) I wanted to create a set of rules to follow for this project and since I already developed a little bit of style to my photographs over the years, I wanted to put my own spin on it as well:

Canon 5d Mark III with 35mm f/1.4.

1. Candid only. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

2. No homeless or buskers

3. Interact with the subject as little as possible (no interaction highly preferred) prior to the image capture.

4. Really low aperture (this one gets a lot of hate in the street community). This first project is entirely shot at f/1.8.

Dates and locations for this project:

Entire month of August 2015 - NYC

Two weeks in October 2015 - Los Angeles

Two weeks in November - Seattle

So without further ado, my first attempt at street: (just scroll down to scroll sideways - the site needs work, I know)

Anthelion

While I would prefer you view the work on my website (dark background for better contrast, horizontal alignment, and larger viewable image) I'll also post the images here:

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I definitely have an interest in continuing street photography but im not sure what to do next. Experimenting with new cameras would be intersting as being candid with a 5d mark 3 and 35mm lens is pretty difficult.

If there is any interest I can write out my experiences in each city with their similarities and differences to each other.

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So what's the biggest difference between this and the free version?

http://www.blackmesagame.com/bms_presskit.pdf

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They aren't getting my money before they've added Crossfire tho...

Working on it!

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This looks very original.

Whut

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Smoothing groups only work on faces that are connected in a 45 degrees angle or less.

Also how does your geometry look from above? because I tried it out myself like so:

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obviously with smoothing groups on all the rounded corners, but I ran into another problem when I made the top left corner as you can see here:

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the solution i found is pretty impractical and weird but the corner you can see in the lower left corner is working correctly, as you can see here:

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You are right, smoothing only works on 45 degrees or greater. However, this issue you are having here isnt smoothing groups, its overlapping lightmaps. If you have an arch that sits flat against a wall like that the surface behind it has to be nodraw or else you get those gross vertical line shadows. Also dont forget to compile with -smooth 45. I dont think smoothing groups work unless you specifically compile for them. (I could be wrong on that last bit)

Also that curved bit on the right could be made with one solid.

That brush could be made with one solid btw.

Found this and thought it was cool

http://imgur.com/gallery/MefkY

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I am glad you added callouts already, though.

oh man

Personally I think a simplified recreation of that top part of mont saint michel could make a really interesting de map. I mean look at this shit, its begging to be made:

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Does the 10th work for you? I'm happy to swap.

Yeah sure thanks!

Why the swap?

Id love to get a test in with some of my changes I made to contra.

Some quick sloppy screens:

http://imgur.com/a/wA8ks

The radar:

http://i.imgur.com/Uj2ePWf.jpg

And the map file:

http://jeanpaultron.com/maps/de_contra_a4.zip

Is the next available test really the 17th?

Also keep in mind if the prop uses shared UV space or whatever its called, the new TF2 lightmapped stuff doesnt work.

More like yellow designer amirite?

Well hopefully you didnt mean to post in this thread

Honestly the amount of colors in the scene really depends on the mood he wants to portray.

If dark wet and depressing is your goal then you definitely achieved it! (looks awesome so far btw)

Doesnt get delayed: complaints about bugginess

Gets delayed: complaints about waiting to play

Yup exactly.

The console will say something in red letters along the lines of "ent only compile, not final!" which is why I say its mostly for testing and time saving purposes. If you were to release a final version of the map I would make it a full regular compile.

Im not sure why this is exactly but everything should be perfect on your final compile anyways

If its just for your own internal testing purposes you can use the entity only compile.

Entity only compile takes less than a second and updates all point entities in the map. Updating/changing any brush entities or anything requiring vvis or vrad will break the compile though.

EDIT: This is after youve already done a normal compile on the map and that BSP file exists in the specified map directory youre compiling into.

EDIT EDIT: I forgot the entity only compile rules about triggers n shit but the point is if all youre doing is updating a spawn location then entity only compiles are a massive headache reducer.

siq tite breh

Are you compiling with -staticproppolys and -staticproplighting? That might fix the rock prop issue.

How about some gasworks and stalkyard?

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