PC Gamer / Frontier Screenshot contest

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The competition is over and the best screenshots can be seen here.

I took some screenshots, narrowed them down to my best one, but I didn't enter it because I didn't think it was all that great. Looking at the shortlist image though, I really should have sent it in. Ah well. Go check them out - some are kind of average, but there are some really nice ones too!
 
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Hey, my shot's in there!
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Some excellent screenshots in that collection; I am impressed! Kind of elitist (pun) that only UK and US got to enter, though. Archvillian, if you're going to tell us about your screenshot, you should post it, bud! Same goes for Shadragon: you started this, now finish it with pics!
 
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Archvillian, if you're going to tell us about your screenshot, you should post it, bud! Same goes for Shadragon: you started this, now finish it with pics!

Ha, good point. It's definitely not up there with the best, but in hindsight I'm thinking it had a better chance of making the initial cut than I previously assumed.

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You know, I agree. I think the best pics really play up the colour palette of the game, although I have bad memories of cobalt blue space from Frontier. But that shot is better than many if not most in the collection. I wonder if some of them had been Photoshopped. Were I to 'Shop yours, I'd re-crop it so that the pic went vertical and the sun, planet, and station were all along the vertical center axis, kind of like the monolith from 2001. I'd ditch the ship and add more starfield. Maybe put the ship in again but very small and heading for the mail slot.
 
Grats to all the finalists and well-done to all those who submitted.

NOTE TO SELF: Next time, take a picture in the rings. The judge likes rings!
 
Ooh, vertical would be a nice composition. I'd probably also have to take the shot from further away to get enough of everything in frame, (the camera is tethered annoyingly close to the ship).
Hmm, you could also set up two screens to be stacked one above the other to make a near-square instead of a wide&thin panorama, then that big square would give much more flexibility for cropping at angles.
Hmm, should have thought about all this a week ago... :)
 
NOTE TO SELF: Next time, take a picture in the rings. The judge likes rings!

I'm really surprised at how few pictures included space stations. The stations in Elite are spectacular (one of the big reasons I didn't send mine in was that it failed to show that - the station was backlit and the ring world not visible). I wonder if the reason was not many people took shots of stations, or if the judges just aren't that into them?
 
I like it, Arch! Nicely done! Sometimes, I'll run around a nebula for a half hour, trying to find the right star system to get the best shot of it. Most time, I'll stop and shoot if I see something interesting or funny. Like an eyeball in space, or a black hole with a smiley face on it. Artistic at times, but mostly I'm spur of the moment.
 
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