Simviation Forum - Screenshot Critique: Spits

Oct 12^th, 2007 at 5:16am

Slotback Ex Member

One of the most beautiful aircraft in histroy, I hope these screenshots do this aircraft justice.... What do you think?

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 5:46am

stuart1044 Offline
Colonel
Studio V
Manchester, UK

Gender:
Posts: 1575

Lovely, personally i don't see anything wrong with them Cheesy

&&&&Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66ghz, 2gb DDR2 800mhz, Nvidia GeForce 6600GT 256mb, Western Digital 250gb SATA II 300 16MB Cache, Thermaltake 600w PSU, Vista Ultimate 64-bit&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 11:41am

spitfire boy Offline
Colonel
Welcome to my world.
Wherever you think I'm not

Gender:
Posts: 2788

I'm not certain whether these are edited or not. Look at the clouds in #2. Look very real.

But that's beside the point; these shots are just incredible!! You cartainly have done the good old spit justice; although I personally would've liked to see a shot showing the top of the wings.

Just Shocked

&&&&[center]

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 1:47pm

Ashar Offline
Colonel
Ottawa, Ontario

Gender:
Posts: 4485

I love the first one Cool

Blabbing Away at SimV Since June 8, 2004

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 2:49pm

thebrelon Offline
Colonel
life is too short, have
fun!!
france

Gender:
Posts: 949

I prefer the second: the composition is better, the plane is not centered (the fuselage aligned with the horizon line in the third...), the sky and clouds is very realistic, as well as the landscape, and the lighting on the white strips give a special touch, something like a mystical feeling which is what the spit is: mystic

the third is not as strong, the position of the plane on the horizon line and the 50-50 sky-ground organisation. plus the lighting effect is not so effective.

the first is nice, in real life, the sun should prevent you from seeing the instrument so clearly. that's why this one doesn't work as well as the other. apart from that the landscape/sky/clouds/haze is great. everything outside the cockpit is good, but the inside doens't match.

great work anyway!

&&laptop: kenitec D900TV&&Pentium 4 3.4gHz HT&&4Gb corsair DDR II 533MHZ&&2x 60Gb Hard drive&&Nvidia geforce 6800 DDR3 256 Mb

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 4:12pm

Fly2e Offline
Global Moderator
It's 5 O'clock Somewhere!
KFRG

Gender:
Posts: 199132

Great work!
Nice shots!
Are any of them edited or are they raw!

I know that feeling in Shot#1
A great VC, Great lighting, cool lens flare & wide open spaces!!

Dave Cool

Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor 965, 4.2GHz/8MB L3 Cache, Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel X58 Chipset Cross
Fire & SLI Supported, Mushkin Redline 6GB (3X2GB) Memory, eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, Vista 64.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Oct 13^th, 2007 at 6:37am

Clipper Offline
Global Moderator
Clearly Canadian

Posts: 8861

Vince "Le Brelon" surfaces after many months awol! Great to see an old friend back...

The pics are stunning. The only thing I can add is the second and third are too similar to justify adding the third in the set. Otherwise some fine, dramatic sreenshots, Clouds are varied and realistic, overall coloring sets a sultry "vintage mood", scenery is clean and balanced. Nice work and hopefully Slotback has a lot more of this fine work to share..

Slotback, would be nioce of you could describe some of the techniques used here to create these..

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Oct 13^th, 2007 at 8:13am

Slotback Ex Member

Quote:

But that's beside the point; these shots are just incredible!! You cartainly have done the good old spit justice; although I personally would've liked to see a shot showing the top of the wings.

The top of the wings are painted green so I would not get such dramatic contrast and bloom like effect with the top of the wing.

I'll try though.

Quote:

the first is nice, in real life, the sun should prevent you from seeing the instrument so clearly. that's why this one doesn't work as well as the other. apart from that the landscape/sky/clouds/haze is great. everything outside the cockpit is good, but the inside doens't match.

Thanks, I'll improve on that.

Quote:

Great work!
Nice shots!
Are any of them edited or are they raw!

All are edited.

I took off and angled the aircrafts wings so they would bounce sunlight into the Camera while still providing a nice mountainal view, then took the picture. Opened it in Photoshop, sharpened it, then overdid a light yellow Diffuse Glow. Then went, edit>Fade Diffuse Glow and moved the sliders back till I found a nice level (You can also change blending type and lower Opacy if you want then repeat). Then I went Image>Adjustments>Match colour, then turned up Luminance and Colour intensity till it looked good.

If it's to bright then mess with levels.

Oh, and thanks for all constructive comments.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #8 - Oct 13^th, 2007 at 8:16am

Mictheslik Offline
Colonel
Me in G-LFSM :D
Bristol, England

Gender:
Posts: 6011

May I ask what clouds you are using?

fantastic shots...

.mic

[center]

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #9 - Oct 13^th, 2007 at 9:04am

Slotback Ex Member

Mictheslik wrote on Oct 13^th, 2007 at 8:16am:

May I ask what clouds you are using?

fantastic shots...

.mic

The clouds will look better in the screenshots because of the editting, but I am using Active Sky 6 Graphics.

Texture: 008 Puffy Mod B
Stratus: Stratus 12
Wispy: Wispy 23
Cumulus: Cumulus 30

Thanks.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #10 - Oct 13^th, 2007 at 11:33am

a1 Offline
Colonel
Tied In A Knot I Am

Gender:
Posts: 8217

Amazing.

#2 really had me jumping. Grin

790i : QX9650 : 4Gb DDR3 : GeForce 8800 GTX : 1 WD Raptor : 1 WD VelociRaptor 150

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: