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First Shots

Postby Splinter562 » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:51 pm

Inspired by the monthly screen shot contests, I decided to try my hand at making some screen shots of my own. The following were done in FSX with the Wings of Power Spitfire MkIa. I used flight recorder to do the formation flying. Here are the shots for critique (I didn't have anti aliasing on in the first one):

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Some other questions. Is there a way to get the menu bar to go away without having to crop the photo? When playing back a recording as traffic, the replayed airplane was very jittery, making it hard to fly formation with. Is this just something I'll have to deal with, or is there a way to get the traffic replay to fly smooth?
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Re: First Shots

Postby llamedos » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:51 pm

They are awsome shots Splinter, i love the angles you've got there, very nice :o :o

To get rid of the bar at the top hold down ALT for a few seconds and it will disapear.

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Re: First Shots

Postby Clipper » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:11 pm

Welcome Splinter.. :) Glad you choose StudioV for your initial post. You seem to have a great eye for perspective, excellent first set! If you haven't already gotten a good image processor, here's a great one to start out with..Irfanview..http://www.simviation.com/fsutilities_gen3.htm
It'll help you with cropping, sharpening, contrast etc. I've taken the liberty of "Irfing" one of your pics to show you a bit of what it can do. Keep in mind though that once you adjust sharpness, contrast etc, the pic falls into the "edited" categoy and must be posted in appropriate forums (here, edited screenshots etc). Feel free to jump in on any of our StudioV's ongoing contests, I think Judges Choice "Krigl" might be a good starting point. I'm sure one of the gang will answer your "recorder" question shortly so hang in and enjoy SimV..the ONLY Sim place to be...


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Re: First Shots

Postby Omag 2.0 » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:18 pm

Fourth shot! WOW!  :o
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Re: First Shots

Postby cspyro21 » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:25 pm

Hi Splinter,
Welcome to SimV - those certainly are some fantastic opening shots, and as Omag said, that fourth shot is something special.
Looking good so far, keep up the good quality screenies!! :) 8)
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Re: First Shots

Postby Harold » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:11 pm

Sweet & Sour! That is nice! Very very good first posting! And an honor to us all that you choose SimV to post your first shots! I really like your style and angles! Very creative ... keep 'em coming!

And welcome to the V, Splinter! Hope you enjoy your stay! If you need anything just ask; we're a friendly bunch of nutcases ;D
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Re: First Shots

Postby Splinter562 » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:23 pm

Thanks for the comments. I'll be posting a second set that I made with the SR-71 Blackbird shortly.
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Re: First Shots

Postby Double_Farvel » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:37 pm

Hey and welcome to the V.  Some quality shots there.. I like the last one!
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