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Wasss once a man
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I have to agree with the sentiment here; I do find it pretty demoralising to come to the site and see multiple pictures where figures are just standing on desks or coffee tables or sheets, all on battle stands, and there's no context to the pic other than "these are my toys."
I don't profess to be the most artistic or most talented photographer here, but I do always try to think about the background/setting, what the characters are doing, the angle I'm using, etc. Then I pick the best shot or two of the setup to post here, because I hope to get feedback on these elements as well as just which figure(s) I included.
Don't get me wrong -- I truly LOVE seeing pictures with dozens of figures in, but in a diorama so they look like characters and not just action figures. Cobra rallies, Joe briefings or mission prep, that sort of thing. One of my earlier posts was of a setup I did with all my ninja characters & troops of the time and it was partly just for the sake of showing loads of ninja figures but also because I wanted to see them in some action. Other army shots with context that come to mind are Soundwave's Cobra Comm centre and Violentfix & Sonneilon's stories featuring a Cobra rally and a huge pile of dead Vipers respectively...
There are other sites geared towards showcasing collections, like yojoe.com's user pictures section, but it was the creativity and the imaginative dioramas that brought me to this site and that I hope to contribute to. But now I feel it's more likely I'll have the one or two shots I select to post get buried quickly -- wouldn't be so bad if everything were highly creative, then it'd be a challenge to up my game & get noticed, but there's a lot of shots that you can't even discuss the technique or ideas behind and the comments seem to be losing that element of criticism in general.
A slightly related note is regarding people who post a LOT of pics at once, like ten or more, whether they're collection pics or actual dioramas. I know there's no upload limit but surely the fact that we all post into the same photo section warrants some common courtesy? The site membership has increased quite a bit over the last couple of years and the way the pictures are stored makes it easy for individual shots to get buried under a couple dozen shots of the same setup. Just to save flooding the site, howsabout if you've got multiple shots of the same basic stuff, or just a lot of pics that you're ready to post at once, you post one here and the rest in somewhere like photobucket? You can link to the rest, or even embed the images in comments, making it easier to navigate through different user's work. Or at the very least, if you've got 20 pics ready to go, spread them out over a few days, or maybe a couple of days posting at different times, just to keep things varied? And to be honest, you'll probably get more comments per picture because everyone else won't see the block of 10 or whatever as essentially one post...
I'm not trying to offend anyone or pick on anyone in particular here; I've mentioned these feelings to a few other users here over recent weeks so figured since there's a thread addressing the issue I'd add to the debate to air my own concerns.
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