November Screenshot Competition

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Rules:
-One submission per person per month
-Must be from EB
-Slight picture editting allowed
-Cropping only to remove UI (any tiny pictures won't be added to the poll)
-Please keep the demensions to a size that fits in the forum screen (maximum of 1024ish)
-Must obey forum rules

[SwissBarbar]

Like last month i tried to create a Picture of an historical battle:


- Take them down -
Battle of Raphia (217 BC)




ORIGINAL:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Maion Maroneios]

I call this "Terror in the Woods"


This picture is from my ongoing AAR aswell, from a battle between my Makedones and an Epeirote army with some remaining elephantes indikoi. It was complete meyhem, mind you!

Maion

[ludwag]

I focused very much on composing it with having the men in the right positions and taking it from right angle and suff. In photoshop I tried to make it look like sun was shining in their helmets and that someone is more exposed to sunlight while others are standing in the shadows. I think these things make it look more realistic.

Like they are staying in normal weather and normal sky, and not like dramatic and movie-like. I hope you like it anyway. Epic and movie-like sometimes look cool, but thats what everbody do latley, and I allways do it, so I am a little tired of it.

I call this "Vote for me" - by ludwag

[ludwag]

SwissBarbar, I think your picture was way much better before you photoshopped it. You should go back to the old one. It was so fresh and good to watch

[Pontius Pilate]

these are all really great screenshots, some of the best I've seen for EB. this month is going to be better than last I think. really liking SwissBarbar's screenshot.

[SwissBarbar]

Thanks Pontius

@ ludwag: thanks, but i like it better that way, it looks more epic, especially the riders in the sunlight right behind the elephant and the archer on the tower. It's still the same picture, just slightly improved. I like yours, looks like a really big combat. Who did win?

[ludwag]

me ofcourse ;)

[SwissBarbar]

and you're the leader of wich faction? ^^

[ludwag]

Karthadast :p

[Aemilius Paulus]

these are all really great screenshots, some of the best I've seen for EB. this month is going to be better than last I think. really liking SwissBarbar's screenshot.

That's because they all share one thing in common: moderate to heavy editing, which is good, or at least in my opinion. It makes all of these submissions look more like pictures/illustrations than a simple screenshots.

To SwissBarbar: If it is possible, I would edit out that piece of a yellow flag and resubmit the picture if I were you. I still think your picture is the best so far, but that yellow flag messes up the overall impression a little bit. Editing it shouldn't be a problem either, since you could just white out the yellow flag considering the color of the background (it is also white if I am not mistaken).

[SwissBarbar]

yes you're right. better this way? i didn't want to edit the picture by removing things or somewhat like that in the first place. just playin with brightness, contrast and colours.

but the yellow flag there really messed up the picture

[Aemilius Paulus]

yes you're right. better this way? i didn't want to edit the picture by removing things or somewhat like that in the first place. just playin with brightness, contrast and colours.

but the yellow flag there really messed up the picture

Definitely so. Now your picture looks just like a movie - which I think is the highest compliment that can I can make about a screenshot! (the glaring brightness and the dark shades are actually somewhat reminiscent of the all-CG 300 - which I did not like, but it still was a professionally-made movie).

[SwissBarbar]

thanks, i appreciate that ^^ btw. i did not "photoshop it" , i don't own photoshop. i made that in the Microsoft office picture manager...

if its too modified for this competition just ignore it for the poll

[Gleemonex]

i made that in the Microsoft office picture manager...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=108348

http://www.gimp.org/

-Glee

[SwissBarbar]

thanks glee

[ludwag]

thanks, i appreciate that ^^ btw. i did not "photoshop it" , i don't own photoshop. i made that in the Microsoft office picture manager...

if its too modified for this competition just ignore it for the poll

You have too high contrast. If it should look like sunshine, you should add some more highlight or a very small lens flare as the sun. The first thing i think about when i see the picture is that it is just photoshopped. I think the goal of photoshopping is not to make it look movie like, but to make it more realistic. Make it look more like reality.

[SwissBarbar]

i like the 300 look

[ludwag]

but can you show the first picture. In hide-box or something

[SwissBarbar]

how can i make a hide-box?

[Tellos Athenaios]

[spoil] [/ spoil] tags, but without the spaces. Or use [ex] [/ ex] to similar effect, again without spaces.

[Pontius Pilate]

That's because they all share one thing in common: moderate to heavy editing, which is good, or at least in my opinion. It makes all of these submissions look more like pictures/illustrations than a simple screenshots.

Yes, I am aware that they were edited and what that does to screenshots, but still, they're not half bad, well that's what I think.

[SwissBarbar]

ok, theres the original....

[ludwag]

nice. Seriously, the original looks alot better. The light and the grey colours are so nice and fresh. You when you increase the contrast, you should also change the colours wih ctrl+u and dicrease them

[Aemilius Paulus]

ok, theres the original....

Where? I don't see it or the link.

EDIT: Never mind, found it. I didn't realize you put it on your first post.

[SwissBarbar]

nice. Seriously, the original looks alot better. The light and the grey colours are so nice and fresh. You when you increase the contrast, you should also change the colours wih ctrl+u and dicrease them

to be honest, i have no idea how to do that, i just move the movebars in the Microsoft office picture manager back and forth till i like the picture

[General Appo]

I like to call this one
That uncomfortable moment when the last enemy´s dead, you´ve all had a good cheer and felt real united and solidary, and you find yourself face to face with that guy, what´s his name, Flavius something, from the third cohort, who thinks Bacchus worship should be banned. Stuck-up Campanian twit. Damn, he´s looking at me. Junos c**t, I can´t move a muscle here. What the **** is the Centurion doing? Gods, this is taking forever.

[Maion Maroneios]

That uncomfortable moment when the last enemy´s dead, you´ve all had a good cheer and felt real united and solidary, and you find yourself face to face with that guy, what´s his name, Flavius something, from the third cohort, who thinks Bacchus worship should be banned. Stuck-up Campanian twit. Damn, he´s looking at me. Junos c**t, I can´t move a muscle here. What the **** is the Centurion doing? Gods, this is taking forever.

Wow, I just hope that isn't the title of pic

Maion

[ludwag]

I think many people will vote for you if Marcusaureliusantonius puts it into the vote thread. I think it is amusing, but I diddnt really take a look at the screenshot though.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I like to call this one
That uncomfortable moment when the last enemy´s dead, you´ve all had a good cheer and felt real united and solidary, and you find yourself face to face with that guy, what´s his name, Flavius something, from the third cohort, who thinks Bacchus worship should be banned. Stuck-up Campanian twit. Damn, he´s looking at me. Junos c**t, I can´t move a muscle here. What the **** is the Centurion doing? Gods, this is taking forever.

This should be put in the EB toons contest, when someone finally creates this type of contest. This pictures is as bland as the taste of the glue paste, but the description/title is simply priceless!!!

However, this is a screenshot competition, so I am not sure about your chances of winning unless you hold an extensive grassroots campaign. Still a hilarious picture though.