some really good screen shots

[steve181]

GreenBaron I fully agree with what your saying, the whole screen shot business is simple when compared, to the develpers and designers of scenery and aircraft, who spend exhustive hours doing what they do best. Even though comparatively screen shot taking is simple, it is also difficult in even the smallest ways like many people don't even know how to install scenery or aircraft, i know it took me a while through trial and error to figure it all out. Also some people may have a crap computer or maybe not even fligth sim. So to have those 3 things going for you in itself isn't all that common, and that just the start of the screen shot taking process.

check out the website posted by leftseat 86 www.virtual.planepictures.net

shots there are so hardcore, that it is probably some peoples full time occupation!

[NOTAR520AC]

Don't you people have anything better to do than argue?

Kum-bay-ah.

[Leftseat86]

that scenery is so hardcore, all the terminal buildings

lol...it's just the LAX default FS2002 scenery...

-Clovis

[GreenBaron]

Steve181, I agree with you it requires some know-how to get it all done. The flightsim resolution you can find in options/settings. choose the display settings. That's how I think it works with fs2k2.

As a spotter I found it quite humoristic to see that screenshot (http://virtual.planepictures.net/u/in/1075581534.jpg) was taken with the sun at the "wrong" side In real, this would have caused some serious backlight which is certainly not good for the quality of your picture...

now I'll go to bed; it's 2.30am over here

cheers,

[PIAA310]

Originally Posted by steve181

the resolution of my scrren shots? If so i'm not sure, how do i find out?

another one

Steve181, no ofense...but your graphics SUCK!! Get a new computer man, and then you'll get good screen shots. Like G-MIDY...not as good as his, but close to it.


-PIAA310

[steve181]

I'm surprised at how much attention my topic has received. 463 views, and 44 replies. It's certainly the most, in the current flight sim disscusion page.

Must have been because of something i said!

[Crazy764]

Steve, I think your screenshots are nice, but the graphics really suck.

You need a new graphic card.

I read and agree about all the stuff you said concerning time and effort it takes to place the right aircraft in the right weather conditions and environment with the right sun angles. However, bad graphics spoils it all.

You may think, "Graphic cards are just money, what I do takes skill"...that may be true, but viewers will look at the whole picture, and your graphics just give a horrible first impression.

[steve181]

oh yeah i realise i need a new graphics card, i cant afford one because of the astronomical cost of my commercial pilots licence flight traning, i do understand that a new card would make the images "crisper" and everything.

Until yesterday i never new there was a website dedicated to scrrenshots and that the website is all ordely and everything, to be frank, and correct me if i'm wrong almost all the screenshots in this flight simulator forumn were pretty crappy, and i just wanted to see other's work, that was a bit more interesting than just a jet flying straight and level in a blue sky. I tried to get the ball rolling with my best screenshot efforts, but now that i've found that website and the screenshots there are of an intensely good quality and origionality, i can get my daily screen shot fix there.

N.B i'm not a forign exchange student with poor english, i just cant be bothered correcting the words i misspelt.

[PIAA310]

Ummm..steve, where do you get the time to play FS?? You are getting your CPL and you still have time to play games. How can you do it?

[steve181]

I pretty much don't use the computer, during the week, I'm doing c.p.l x-countrys from 8am till 1pm mon-fri, then 1-4 mon fri i attended the a meterology lecture. I have my ppl , and know how to fly x-country so i dont really need to study x-country flying. I should really be studying met at nights, the exam is in 2 weeks, i'll start doing hard out study next week. I work all day saturday, and today's sunday which is the only day of the week i get off, so naturally i tend to laze around, and get my breath back for the next week. Last week wasn't so intense because all my flights except monday were cancelled because of crappy unseasonal weather, so i got a chance to sleep in, in teh mornings and go on computer. I was spose to do a x-country flight today dual with another academy student, but again the weather cancelled it.

[herpa2003]

I need to browse this forum more often

Seriously, it's just a couple of screenshots. Nothing to get in a 4-page debate over. I think they are pretty good (compared to my average screenshots, at least ).

[steve181]

I agree

i havent had a chance to brouse jetphotos for a while, so just of the subject a bit i got stranded at this desolate airfield i flew to, when i was doing a solo cpl cross country flight, there was a grass strip, a farmhouse (which i stayed the night at). and lots of sand flies, and heat and that was it. The field was in a vally and the surrounding terrain was really hilly. I went to start the aircraft for a 2.5 hr flight back to the aviation academy, the propeller was spinning over, but not firing. The battery eventually went flat from me trying to start the plane. A few academy aircraft, was gonna fly through, with some engineers, but teh weather got bad. So i had to stay the night at a random farmhouse. Next moring the farmer jump started the plane from his car battery and some jumper leads. and i managed to get home via another airfield with a fuel pump (i was almost going into my 45 minute researve!) and batteling through crappy weather, like 5 nautical mile vis, with drizzle. I found out today that the aircraft has magneto problems, thats why it wasn't firing, or something along those lines. So i certainly got lots of experience from that flight!

[G-MIDY]

Steve i direct you to this thread hope the pics are good enough..http://www.jetphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8765

[Ansett]

where is the pilot in the cockpit shot? otherwise fantastic photos

[steve181]

Yeah it would be nice if more virtual cockpit's had pilots in the seats, I guess one of the main reasons they don't is they would obstruct the instruments, and whats outside the window, and also they would completly jerk up the sim, specially if they were hardcore animated!