I'm tellin' ya, if you look young, you can say that it is for class! Be it high school or college!

Sonneilon, you're the only other guy besides myself I've seen use Sun Ce as an avatar (I hung out at JBL/JS for awhile). Anything you post is far from hogging any area. If you think you're hogging the area, then hog away!

My questions read more like a grocery list. Websites? Cameras? Settings? Photoshopping? I have a few rough story arcs bottled up in my head, but no medium or resources in which to distribute it. Plus no places to shoot, unless I wanted to make it fully digital. I'd be afraid of how that'd look though, especially when these other dio-stories feature settings and locations that add that extra impact to any given scene. Some of you fellas do a great job with your sets -- keep up the good work!

I've never had any of these problems maybe it's because I've been shooting in remote out of the way locations away from the public.

Just turned 18 on the 1st

Cool to know that there is another younger Joe fan here! I'm only 21 myself!

Greeaaaaaaaat, and here I am fast approaching 30

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Just for the record, I'm 31. I only know that because my wife reminds me of my b-day and Kody occasionally says, "mom's 33, and your 31..."

Sun Ce is my fave DW character. I have yet to pick up the expansion that recently came out; Empires2 or whatever. I tend to favor Wu for some reason. *shrug*

Anyway, ask away. make that grocery list if you want.

Websites. I don't have my own website. Sure, I have a wonderful geocities site, but man, you look at my pics 3x in a row, you've just exceeded the f'n bandwidth. So I post my dios over on JoeDebriefed. They had a bug earlier and I pulled ALL my dios off. I'm too lazy to put them back up too. It's a fanfiction site but the key is to plug the dio other places. Btw, I post on JoeSightings and JoeBattlelines.

Camera. I currently use a Kodak "easyshare" Z730 5.0 megapixel. It works for what I need it for. Sure, I'd love a Canon or Nikon but this is what I got for X-mas and it does just fine. I'm still learning how to use it. Keep in mind, as Dave says, "Macro is the dioist's best friend."

Settings. Depends on what I'm doing. Usually I just leave it on Auto, turn off the flash and have the MACRO on. *shrug*

CGI Programs. I don't have Fireworks or Photoshop like most people. I rely on a really old Photostudio (Canon, came w/ the scanner over 6 yrs ago) and MS's PictureIt 7.0 which came with the computer. Both have their strengths and extreme weaknesses. lol. We all do what we can with what we have.

As for no places to shoot, seriously, a lot of us just go outside. Some go the park, the forest nearby, wherever. But for my dio, 90% of is indoors so I've been building my own sets. I tend to use wood for a lot of it simply because we have a plethera of 2x4s laying around. Plus we got rid of some shelves in the house so that allowed me to build the Lobby for Transformation. But I took Luke's advice and started using foamboard (and a lot of it at that). I'll do a 'making-of' in the future when "Transformation" is all finished.

oh hey SD, I just remembered... Phu up until a few days ago, only had a webcam. So he actually shot a lot of his pictures either in his bathroom or on a table NEAR the computer. Seriously. He shot with a webcam and the grittiness made his pics actually look REALLY cool. The limitations we have only ask us to be more creative in how we do our stuff. My buddy in Japan told me that parts of Terminator were done with a cigarette, styrofoam and a plastic cup.

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Zhou Tai, Sun Shang Xiang AND Gan Ning... the other armies are hopeless