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11-04-2007, 12:16 PM
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Legendary Saboteur
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Guys.. can we cut it with the collection pics?
ok,
Ok I'm done.
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11-04-2007, 12:49 PM
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Wasss once a man
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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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11-04-2007, 01:31 PM
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That Light Dude
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I second both sentiments. Past couple weeks it has gotten really out of hand and I'm glad urbn sab stepped up to say something, I felt I haven't been here long enough to step up. But I started coming to this site daily because it was creative and the shots told a story. If you look at the pics from this weekends theme, you can really see some of the shots that make this such a fun thing to do. But the last few weeks when you log on all you see lame shots of 25th's standing around or *explitive* pics of a wall of 25ths still in there package, wow, if I wanted to see that I could go to retail website. second, I think it is kind of rude to upload 10 to 15 pics at a time and totally rape the 1st page of new uploads, like what was said it pushes good pics to the back alot more quickly than it should and not everybody goes through the back pages and gets to see it. This has really been bugging me and stiflied my inspiration, thus I haven't posted a new pic in 2 weeks because an hour later its pushed to page 3 because of 40 kitchen floor pics.
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11-04-2007, 02:05 PM
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O Bope vai te pegar
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If you didn't, I would Rich. I totally agree with you, Stormer and Fireflyed on this one.
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11-04-2007, 02:26 PM
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aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;)
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Ahem. As I have discussed this with Stormer already, when Hammerfel started this site, it was for all types of pictures. I have brought this issue to his attention tho he hasn't replied back yet.
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11-04-2007, 02:32 PM
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That Light Dude
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonneilon
Ahem. As I have discussed this with Stormer already, when Hammerfel started this site, it was for all types of pictures. I have brought this issue to his attention tho he hasn't replied back yet.
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maybe a new section would help Sonn
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