are we supposed to use the ortophoto of Prague by Peter Bednar

Okay, mine is up. Of course, the rules leave some artistic freedom, but this is my interpretation.

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

Updated rules.

I believe the quality of the content is important only to a certain extent, but beyond that, composition is what counts. I have seen many many crystal clear shots that came off of amazing computers, but dubbed them all ''worthless'' because it looks as if a 3 year old composed them...

I don't blame people for cropping. I personally believe it is unique, a breakaway from the norm (800x600). In addittion, I know how hard it is to intergrate some of the photograpic techniques into screenshots without a payware camera program, and cropping is one easy way to accomplish that.

Now, before you start gibber jabbing about me...

...1. I believe I have only cropped once during my stay here at SimV, but I have seen many fine examples of how much of a positive difference cropping can make to a shot...

...2. Believe it or not, my computer is NOT configured for Flight Simulator, and I can't claim that I can "handle my computer" when it comes to flight sim...

All and all, I don't think that cropping is used to take out the bad parts of a shot; but rather, to enhance the compositon and create more intreast

Jeff

Cunning plan...

Lets crop this thread...

What a most extraordinary thread. I must confess that I'm totally bemused by the whole thing. How people can get so worked up over something so trivial I do not know - and what has it got to do with payware screenshots anyway.......  ???

There are no set rules for how you create your picture - it's the end result that's important. Who cares if it's been cropped or not for goodness sake. It has absolutely nothing to do with how you have set up your sim or anything else. This is supposed to be a fun hobby - there are no 'rules' for how you do anything.

If someone wants to go and spend a load of dosh to get an 'expert' to set up their system just to run a trivial computer program - OK, that's fine by me. I wouldn't - but I have to smile when I'm then being told that apparently because I haven't and ....... wait for it.....heavens above, because I've cropped them.......any screen shots I might shoot are also pretty much worthless 

Excuse me now please while I go off into a public spat and throw all my toys out of the pram 

Ohhhhhh  boooooooyyyyy...... 

Quote:


.... let's go with it eh? Thanks Pete.

As you say in your sig, the world isn't black and white.

Just heard that over 30 people have today been killed by suicide bombers in Iraq and many many more have been injured. Now that's something to get worked up and emotional over..