Evening all! There’s some great stuff that’s posted since my last visit here, glad to see some new faces/helmets too!
@ Gothic Lucy: Some lovely stuff in that Lucy! Shellshock’s got a great look to it with the position of the Screenshot and the lighting surrounding the Scorpion, should be a shoe-in for the theme this week I think. Not too sure about it being in the “Silver Collection” though with that warm golden glow behind the tank. 
Conjurer looks absolutely stunning! Were you performing a Ballssassination with that posing? Great positioning of the lightning from the Volcano too, really makes the Spartan look menacing and powerful!
@ Cerilium: I know that feeling all too well sometimes, but as stealth4ce discusses, certain Screenshots that have a deeper meaning always add another special dimension of satisfaction when you look at them. Glad to see you back here too by the way!
@stealth4ce: First of all, I have to say your Fragile Beauty piece is absolutely beautiful! Great timing and positioning of the light with the Spartan’s arms being in the right place. It’s a shame it was done so long ago as it really deserves some more attention, a really touching tribute to your great-grandma too.
I’m gonna have to bother you about how to get that black light effect on the Monitors as I have some cunning plans with that ability…
Really like the pieces you posted, Sub-Heavenly Hosts looks like a great background/wallpaper piece, how many people helped out with that piece to get that many Monitors?
Nice work with Spark of Life, thanks for giving us that extra annotation too on how and why you positioned everything, glad to see some EVA love in there again too! What did you use to get that green effect?
The close-up shot of Project Middleground definitely takes the biscuit from the ones you’ve posted here as I love that sparks and close proximity of the Monitor in the Screenie!
@ Z6NITRO: Not just me then tagging old Screenies with “Heavy Vehicles then”…
Really like the look of “We got Your Back” with the Red players all standing as one against those dirty blues. Agreed the lighting could have been better but it’s super difficult to get an atmospheric Screenie in Matchmaking so my hat goes off to you good sir for those ones you’ve taken this week!
The background on “Always midnight” looks superb! I take it an assassination was being performed to get that fantastic posing with the Stalker Spartan?
PS: No worries about the name of the Screenshot with “Contrails and Caps”, great minds think alike. 
@ TheKingOfLlamas: Welcome to our humble thread first of all! Thanks for posting up some Screenies for us to look at! Some very good shots form Matchmaking in there, especially the Banshee love. Here’s a couple of quick tips and advice for you to help get you to take even better shots (if you know any of these already, my apologies):
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Remember you can always make Screenshots by playing Custom Games by yourself or with other people with Custom Forged Maps and Gametypes to help you to get some special shots, including adding Forge FX, like Juicy and Colorblind (you’ll find them under Gadgets in Forge, you can add them to any map.)
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Ensure that you get Screenshots without the background being too busy or noisy, whether it’s action going on behind or a lot of map detritus (unless that’s meant to be part of your Screenshot’s focus). Walls, rocks and the Map’s distant landscapes and skyboxes are often the best to use with your Spartan.
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To get some good angles of a Spartan without too much “noise” in the background, you can zoom in as you would with a scoped weapon.
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If your having trouble with timing a Screenshot, simply pause the video and lightly hold down the firing trigger. You’ll then get a super slo-mo “frame-by-frame” video to play with so you can get blasts/poses/effects just right.
I gotta admit, from your Recent Screenshots, the one I like the most is the close up one of your Mark V helmet form Husky Raid. Nice positioning and angle! The one of the Spartan “running” on the Ghost’s nose is also a fave for it’s sheer oddness! Someone’s clearly been playing with the Matrix there…
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And now onto my own mad work! My Recent Screenshots is currently filled to the brim with 25 brand new Screenshots featuring Heavy Vehicles and also some Spartans in varying armour for a new fan-fiction I’m putting together focusing on some home-grown S-IV Fireteams called Wasp and Fox.
But with the theme of “Heavy Vehicles”, I decided to bring out the Wraith and Scorpion from the Garage (along with a Banshee for a short while) to get a variety of Screenies on different Maps with varying FX. Here’s some higlhights:
Lurking - Very simple one of a Wraith lurking in the shadows on Outcast with Juicy and Colorblind FX active. Really like how you get the electrical discharge beneath the Wraith form it’s anti-grav generators.
Fire Trail - Taken on Outcast as well, I timed the Scorpion firing with the trail of smoke coming out of the barrel and the fired round providing the warm light.
Ridge Defence - My fave out of the Heavy Vehicles I’ve done this week, I took this one on one of the natural ramps on Vortex with Juicy and colorblind active once again. I made sure that the turret was turned and had just fired to give the tank a more “active” feel to it and the headlamps add an eerie-ish look to it too.
Scarred Veteran - I went a little left field with this piece in damaging my Scorpion to near destruction to have it on fire and smoking, paired with the Colorblind and Olde-Timey FX on Outcast once again. Originally I’d planned for the ship on the map’s animaiton to be in the background to add some extra narrative to the piece, but I preferred having the planet and sunlight behind the tank instead.
Contrails II - The Banshee returned on Vortex with me making another very simple piece focusing on the Banshee’s elongated “vapor trails”, also known as contrails with a plain and dark background behind it to bring out the lighting on the Banshee.
I’ve also tagged some older Screenshots with Heavy Vehicle, mostly Mantis pieces like “Void Stride” and “Stomped”.
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And that’s that from me for the moment! I’ll be making a separate post tomorrow on the Fireteam Wasp Screenshots I’ve taken as I’m running out of character space…
Good luck to anyone who’s going to the Heavy Vehicle theme!
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