F-18 Over Santa Monica

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F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby lunitic_8 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:01 pm

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Enjoy,feel free to tell me what you think ;)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby Brando14100 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:20 pm

Nice perspective in the last one.

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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby lunitic_8 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:23 pm

Nice perspective in the last one.

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thank you, as you can see i was testing out the photo real scenery pt1+pt2 in Santa Monica, and it turned out very good :D 8-)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby Brando14100 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:24 pm

Nice perspective in the last one.

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thank you, as you can see i was testing out the photo real scenery pt1+pt2 in Santa Monica, and it turned out very good :D 8-)


Yes, it looks very good.

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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby lunitic_8 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:25 pm

Nice perspective in the last one.

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thank you, as you can see i was testing out the photo real scenery pt1+pt2 in Santa Monica, and it turned out very good :D 8-)


Yes, it looks very good.

8-)

thank you, and i HIGHLY recommend it to everyone ;)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby haroldkip » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:16 pm

Yes, it looks very good.

I always hate it when people tell you 'great shots' and 'yes, it looks very good', when actually the scenery looks like sh*t.

If anything and before any tweaking ... an F-18 is typically not an aircraft you want to use to explore photoreal scenery. And your shots show it; the scenery looks very blurry. There are probably a lot of tweaks you can do to your system to make those tiles look much better but before that take the Cub out there and make sure you let the tiles load before you take a screenshot.

I also think you should try to learn about compression. You image weight is sometimes less than half of what is allowed and that really is a waste of valuable image quality, especially if Pete so generously gives you serverspace to host your images!

At idle your machine could run circles around mine at full throttle, so you should at least be able to get screenshots of photoreal scenery like this ... probably better.

I am sorry lunitic, I don't mean to be harsh or even burst your bubble but I can't stand untrue honesty. You don't learn anything from that, which just doesn't make you grow as an artist ...

One more tip: don't post screenshots just for the sake of posting. Always ask yourself: "Are these really great? Can I spot blurries? Can those clouds look better? How about the perspective? Is this shot dynamics enough? How's the lighting? Can there be more action in the background? Can I get a better angle on the subject. Have I already tried something I haven't tried before? Or can I create anything better?"

You probably can ...
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby lunitic_8 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:21 pm

Yes, it looks very good.

I always hate it when people tell you 'great shots' and 'yes, it looks very good', when actually the scenery looks like sh*t.

If anything and before any tweaking ... an F-18 is typically not an aircraft you want to use to explore photoreal scenery. And your shots show it; the scenery looks very blurry. There are probably a lot of tweaks you can do to your system to make those tiles look much better but before that take the Cub out there and make sure you let the tiles load before you take a screenshot.

I also think you should try to learn about compression. You image weight is sometimes less than half of what is allowed and that really is a waste of valuable image quality, especially if Pete so generously gives you serverspace to host your images!

At idle your machine could run circles around mine at full throttle, so you should at least be able to get screenshots of photoreal scenery like this ... probably better.

I am sorry lunitic, I don't mean to be harsh or even burst your bubble but I can't stand untrue honesty. You don't learn anything from that, which just doesn't make you grow as an artist ...

One more tip: don't post screenshots just for the sake of posting. Always ask yourself: "Are these really great? Can I spot blurries? Can those clouds look better? How about the perspective? Is this shot dynamics enough? How's the lighting? Can there be more action in the background? Can I get a better angle on the subject. Have I already tried something I haven't tried before? Or can I create anything better?"

You probably can ...



okay :-[thank for the advice
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby haroldkip » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:26 pm

okay :-[

Don't feel bad ... if you like to discuss this then please do not hesitate to contact me via Messenger (harold@haroldkip.nl)

I'm always happy to help ;)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby SubZer0 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:38 pm

lunitic,

Harold has always been honest to everyone here and he knows very well what he is doing. he is one of the best artists around here, if not the best, and if I were you.. I'd take advantage of his offer to help. he helped me a few months ago with FS9 and I was absolutely shocked by what the results were from taking all of his advice.

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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby tcco94 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:39 pm

I like the first one although you can see some blurry with the scenery below the mountains.  ;)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby haroldkip » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:55 pm

he helped me a few months ago with FS9 and I was absolutely shocked by what the results were from taking all of his advice.

Thank you Andy ... that is very kind! And we only discussed add-ons ... we didn't even get technical ;)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby Brando14100 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:57 pm

Oh wow. I looked more at the mountains in the first one and didn't notice how blurry the second was. Should've examined them better. Don't fret about the negative comments though. Harold's helped me out a lot too over the last year.

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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby lunitic_8 » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:34 pm

Its alright I'm not embarrassed at all about the comments, as a matter of fact I'm taking advantage of them and using them along with Harold as advice ;) 8-)
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Re: F-18 Over Santa Monica

Postby Rich H » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:29 pm

Constructive criticism as they call it.
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