Best place for Ship selfies

Snowymonk

Snowymonk
Okay Commanders,
I want to update my INARA fleet ship images because I have realised that my previous photography skills were a bit naff.

One of the problems I had was lighting.

Where's the best place to go to take my photos?

Criteria:
- Good bright lighting - some of my shots look like they were taken during an eclipse
- Good background furniture - I want the ship to be center of the picture but in a good setting
- It can't be permit locked - but can be horizons.
- It must be able to handle Large ships
- I have about a dozen ships so it must contain a shipyard I can relocate my fleet to.
- In the bubble. I don't want to trek

Suggestions?
 

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Colonia. Seriously. It poops on anything in the old bubble.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
It bugs me when people provide a non-answer but that's what I'm going to do. :p

Main thing is to pay attention to the same rules that apply to all photography.
Just google something like "rules for taking good photographs" and you'll find the sort of things I'm referring to.

The main one that I almost always follow is the "rule of thirds".
If you're taking a screenie of your SRV, for example, make sure the surface take up either the bottom 1/3rd of the screen or the bottom 2/3rds.
If there's something about the sky that you want to feauture, you're probably going to want the sky to take up 2/3rds of the shot.
Equally, if you're in a ship and you're next to a station or planet, have the station/planet taking up 2/3rds of the shot on one side or the other and your own ship in the remaining 1/3rd.

Follow the rules of photography and you'll usually make any screenie better.
Ignore them and you can end up with a naff photo' even if the scenery is awesome.
 

Snowymonk

Snowymonk
Stealthie said:
It bugs me when people provide a non-answer but that's what I'm going to do. :p

Main thing is to pay attention to the same rules that apply to all photography.
Just google something like "rules for taking good photographs" and you'll find the sort of things I'm referring to.

The main one that I almost always follow is the "rule of thirds".
If you're taking a screenie of your SRV, for example, make sure the surface take up either the bottom 1/3rd of the screen or the bottom 2/3rds.
If there's something about the sky that you want to feauture, you're probably going to want the sky to take up 2/3rds of the shot.
Equally, if you're in a ship and you're next to a station or planet, have the station/planet taking up 2/3rds of the shot on one side or the other and your own ship in the remaining 1/3rd.

Follow the rules of photography and you'll usually make any screenie better.
Ignore them and you can end up with a naff photo' even if the scenery is awesome.
Click to expand...

:p

it was that sort of research that made me realise how bad my previous efforts were.
I have good subjects (the ships)
What I am looking for is the context to set them in.

Too many of my current pictures were taken in the confines of very dark hangers or with a lot of screen clutter.
(Thanks for your non answer. It validated my thinking)
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Stealthie said:
It bugs me when people provide a non-answer but that's what I'm going to do. :p

Main thing is to pay attention to the same rules that apply to all photography.
Just google something like "rules for taking good photographs" and you'll find the sort of things I'm referring to.

The main one that I almost always follow is the "rule of thirds".
If you're taking a screenie of your SRV, for example, make sure the surface take up either the bottom 1/3rd of the screen or the bottom 2/3rds.
If there's something about the sky that you want to feauture, you're probably going to want the sky to take up 2/3rds of the shot.
Equally, if you're in a ship and you're next to a station or planet, have the station/planet taking up 2/3rds of the shot on one side or the other and your own ship in the remaining 1/3rd.

Follow the rules of photography and you'll usually make any screenie better.
Ignore them and you can end up with a naff photo' even if the scenery is awesome.
Click to expand...

There's a really excellent guide to taking great screenshots in ED over here ...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/265052-Screenshots-101?p=4090246&viewfull=1#post4090246
 

SMcA

SMcA
Another non answer:
A lot depends on what you think is a good image.
Before getting into the camera suit, position your ship so the star is illuminating an interesting part of your ship and the background is behind you. Then get out, pose and click.
Backgrounds: Nebulas, inside some Planetary Nebulas can be spectacular too. Ringed planets, generally from space as on most planets the rings are generally edge on or too far away. Moons with canyons are somewhere to try. You could take a passenger mission to a lava flow or ice geysers. Multiple star systems, Black holes and Neutron star fields give good results.
I suggest that you use an app like Screenshot Saver* which will change the standard bmp to a png (smaller and lossless) and save it with the system name and date stamp.

Good snapping :)


*
http://www.martianfire.co.uk/?page_id=23
 

ITZC0ATL

ITZC0ATL
I don't think there are any "best" places to take screnshots of your ships. I tend to let my shots happen naturally as my ships do whatever their role is. So, an explorer ship could be pictured behind a neutron star, but a bounty-hunting ship is probably going to be pictured in an asteroid field, etc. Ships tend to look their best when they're doing what they do best :D
 

ColonelJack71

ColonelJack71
Hell Port if you like drama...

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