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[Wintersdark]

Lordred, on 09 May 2013 - 10:45 AM, said:

God help you when I do start fighting

I can attest to this. I've been in matches against the pair of you a few times, and while fun things have never really gone well for me

[Lordred]

Wolfmech, on 09 May 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

Awesome, beautiful, dramatic photos. I have nothing but respect. As a photographer I know when I look at something good, and this is great. What does one have to do for you to snap a picture of my mech so I can use it as wallpaper in my computer?

Thanks, I also pretend to be a photgrapher in my free time, I have a now older Nikon D80 with a few sigma lenses, 15-32 wide, 28-70 macro, 70-200 macro.

As for shots, try to track me down in game, or send me a pm for better ways to contact me.

Edited by Lordred, 09 May 2013 - 04:05 PM.

[Major Derps]

In the heat of battle, it's easy to miss the finer details. Taking time to look at these screen shots, shows just how aesthetically beautiful this game is.

[Lordred]

Phone acted up

Edited by Lordred, 09 May 2013 - 04:03 PM.

[Wolfmech]

NIce set, Lordred. I use a Sony Alpha with various lenses. http://jpgmag.com/people/Drakkaris

[Lordred]

Wolfmech, on 09 May 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

NIce set, Lordred. I use a Sony Alpha with various lenses. http://jpgmag.com/people/Drakkaris

Thats a great shot of the moon, here is one from me.

not MWO shots, that will be after this

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I am signing in soon.

Edited by Lordred, 09 May 2013 - 06:10 PM.

[ZeProme]

My mind is blown. How do you take such quality pictures especially the moon? Do you have like a really good telescope or what?

Speaking of which, I should get myself a telescope. I always wanted to be an astronomer.

[Koniving]

We went into the field. Got lots of shots. Going to take even more in 1 hour.

Lordred says he has lots of excellent shots, so should be some huge screenshot dumps soon. But for now, food!

Edited by Koniving, 09 May 2013 - 07:24 PM.

[Lordred]

Up first, Ilya Muro's Black and White edition.

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Atlas Edition.

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[Koniving]

I am the White Illya Muromets with the black stars.

I am also the Founder's Atlas in both the River City and Frozen City night scenes.

Below, I'm the Cyan woodland Atlas K, and the Buccaneer Spider.

Edited by Koniving, 09 May 2013 - 10:17 PM.

[Lordred]

Atlas, and big conflicts.

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[Wolfmech]

I am the black with white stripes Atlas.

[Lordred]

The itsy bitsy spider.

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[Lordred]

ZeProme, on 09 May 2013 - 06:27 PM, said:

My mind is blown. How do you take such quality pictures especially the moon? Do you have like a really good telescope or what?

Speaking of which, I should get myself a telescope. I always wanted to be an astronomer.

Off topic

The Nikon D80 is a 10mp camera from 2006, but it uses a full sensor which gives it very good image quality as well as color, I happen to be lucky enough to have high quality EX glass Sigma lenses, in wide aspect, standard zoom, and a telescopic lens.

A lot of it is patients, and using the camera on manual mode and knowing how long to have the shutter open, how much ISO to be using, and how wide or narrow the aperture should be at any given moment.

Please forgive the low quality shots, my phone's camera is quite horrid.

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Always watching.

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Edited by Lordred, 09 May 2013 - 10:05 PM.

[shellashock]

Lordred, on 09 May 2013 - 08:34 PM, said:

Atlas Edition.

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That first atlas picture is one the most screenshot worthy pictures that i have seen in this thread. If it had the glowing red eyes from the closed beta, I would have to retire my shutdown catapult in underground river city screen saver! Maybe you can get a shot of the old atlas eyes from closed beta and graft it onto that picture? That would be awesome!

[Koniving]

T'was my Founder's Atlas. It only has one eye. Founder's eye glowed blue as I recall or was it green? It was something unique. Atlases used to glow red as mentioned. The regular Atlases do have specular shining eyes that glow in direct light even now, though. (Lordred took some shots that make them shine).

I'm sure Lordred could do an edit along those lines pushing in the glowy eye. However the goal of the thread has only been to show the game at its best ~medium~ settings with no more than saturation, brightness and contrast changes.

The best of medium is only until High and Very High actually get enabled and work. The settings "High" and "Very High" are just placeholders and hold very little difference from medium graphics. It's been said we'll see them start re-introducing high-end graphics features over the upcoming months, with DX 11 being sometime in July.

(Re-reading that: The shut down Catapult underground river city is also me if I'm not mistaken. Two or 3 shades of gray?)

Edited by Koniving, 30 September 2013 - 10:21 PM.

[Wolfmech]

Koniving, on 10 May 2013 - 06:04 AM, said:

T'was my Founder's Atlas. It only has one eye. Poor Founder's glowed blue as I recall or was it green?Regular Atlases do have specular shining eyes that glow in direct light even now, though.

I'm sure Lordred could do an edit along those lines, however the goal has only been to show the game at the best ~medium~ settings with only saturation, brightness and contrast changes.

The best of medium is only until High and Very High actually get enabled and work. The settings are just placeholders and hold very little difference from medium.

You can call him "Odin"... or "One Eye Willy" if you like that better.

[shellashock]

ok then, just hope that Lordred can retake that shot if they ever reimplement the red glowing eyes. Even still, that was a great shot, I just thought that red glowing eyes would best draw attention to the mech, as the brightness is a little low to see all those great details.

Edited by shellashock, 10 May 2013 - 09:03 AM.

[Koniving]

Will see. I finally have non-Founders Atlases (The K, bought during the sale with MC) and the RS (Got last night with cbills).

That in-game eye effect isn't easy to catch at night. The screenshot will be more deliberate and posed in order to make that happen. In general when pictures are taken, try to avoid posing for the camera because the shots are simply much cooler when just playing and fighting. Let Lordred catch the action; behaving naturally just looks better than trying to beam for the camera.

But in consolation.
Atlas Melee wrestling clothesline attack occurs within 1 minute and 20 seconds of where this link starts. From the victim's perspective. Nothing like a fist to the cockpit.

We'll go into the field sometime tonight.
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I remember some of the people I usually talk with in here mentioning something about the Yen Lo Wang and X-5 and wishing they were on sale. Well, they're on sale. *Kicks said people.* Think it's time, eh?

I'll be sporting a couple of new oranges. I already own the tans and browns. But I might wear some in tribute.

Edited by Koniving, 10 May 2013 - 09:32 AM.

[k33bz]

Thank you again Lordred and Koniving for letting me tag along for the black and white series. Can't wat to do it again!