Good afternoon everybody. I hope all is well with everybody and that last minute contributions to the weekly ‘shotgun’ theme are coming along rather well. I can honestly say I have been seeing the creativity pick up in the last several weeks, especially with the ‘Shotgun’ theme.
Gothic Lucy I have to say I am really impressed that even with the ‘Shotgun’ theme, you managed to create amazing screenshots and keep your Silver collection going simultaneously. All three screenshots were amazing, but in particular, I really like ‘Incognito’ the most. You managed to pull off an interesting FX with this photo, not just by ‘covering’ the Spartan-IV’s helmet in light, but the circular lights were a nice touch as well.
Out of curiousity, did you use a shotgun or concussion rifle to create this FX? I have to recommend you playing around with this FX more in the future, because I can think of man, many amazing photos you can create with it in future themes. Well doen with your photos Gothic Lucy
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ComicBeast1212, don’t be so hard on yourself. You did a great job with your recent screenshots. Afterall, remember, practice makes perfect
. I really like the lighting on ‘Broken Silence’ The shotgun’s blast (As you managed to utilize the lighting very well) is amplifying the sun’s light, giving the photo more of a morning feeling to your photo.
Now ‘Red Sun Rises’ actually has more of a beginning of a sunset feeling, comparing it to ‘Broken Slience’, but still is a very nice screenshot nevertheless. I am curious what gadget FX you utilized for such a photo. All of your photos are very nice, and I honestly think you are coming along pretty well as a fellow screenshot photographer as well. Well done with your photos
. Also glad you had fun on Kicking Mantis with the addition of well placed teleporters that will overlaunch Wraith Tanks if they boost into it
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Z6NITRO, I’m glad to see that you’re having fun with the Hologram FX and that you have managed to create some awesome screenshots from it. Ican honestly say you managed to pull off ‘Acid Rain’ perfectly. Wreckage has some unique lighting that can give the feel of ‘alkaline precipitation’ should it ever rain there. The utilization of the Hologram in this photo was simply amazing as it looks as if acidic rain has actually damaged the armor. Brilliant idea, and very original
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‘Blue Thunder’ has a different feel with the same hologram FX. In this photo, I am getting the feeling that this Spartan-IV was struck by lightning, but the energy and blast was actually absorbed instead of knocking out the Spartan’s shields. ‘Solitary’ is also a very nice photo. Well done with your screenshots 
As for the markings on the forge monitor, RECEPTOR 17 and I were talking about this a while ago, when us, Gothic Lucy, and Cyrodragon95 did our light testing on Shatter, but we honestly thought it was normal. Never thought it was an easter egg or anything of that matter, just rather neat
Mecha Sh0ckwave, I also enjoyed your ‘shotgun’ themed photos. I can honestly say that I like ‘Shotgun’, as it is vivid with color, much so, that it looks as if your Spartan is by an ore vein of some sort. Question is, what is the ore? ‘Bright’ was also very vivid with color. I see you took a different approach with ‘Soldier’, using colorblind, which still came out very nice. I get the feeling from this photo, that this spartan-iv is on guard duty at an important UNSC installation. Well done with your photos
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Cizlin, wow, another amazing glitch, and we were just talking about this last night as well. You told me that this was caused by blackscreen, causing a Flood to be treated as a Human, but with flood properties. Very interesting. I have to say that I am impressed by this and wish that this could be done under normal circumstances, but it cannot be done, so I must say, you are really lucky. This leaves the question of is this what happens when an infected human regains control and overpowers the infecting flood itself? Amazing and hilarious simultaneously, Well done and thank you for sharing Cizlin
. I guess Flood are happy as long as they have their cookies and as a group can have ‘happy’ moments once all the humans are taken out, lol.
I also do have to thank the screenshot community for being rather positive and being supportive. I’ll explain what I mean. On one of my recent photos, ‘Recon SURG II’, somebody yesterday spam-tagged it with ‘Horrible Photo’. Frankly, I didn’t care, and I also remembered what many of the positive photographers here told me. Well, I checked on the photo later, and it was up by two ‘likes/recommends’ and six people had tagged it with ‘awesome’. It also gained a substantial amount of downloads as well since, so thank you to everybody here who has been supportive and helpful. I guess the spam-tag failed and backfired, bringing more positive attention to the photo, like ‘a barrel behind the door’
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I also want to thank deluca34 for being supportive as well to us fellow photographers, and want to welcome him back, as he has been more active in this last week. Welcome back deluca, we hope that as is well with you
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Edit: Flood Humor. I wonder what would happen if the Flood discovered Mountain Dew and Doritos, lol. Better yet, would a Snickers candy bar satisfy a Flood’s hunger?