Hero's Domain - Get your Screenshot Professionally Rated

Leeum, zombiez and okage, you've been accepted and put up for review.

Vito, your second screenshot has been accepted and put up for review.

Kittuns, your application has been rejected. Life's to short for me to waste my time on a reviewing a screenshot that has been done thousands of times.

 

Hero's Domain Review for: ATacoBell

Screenshot name: "Water" and can be found on page 3.

Originality: The gravity hammer has been used to make halo 3 screenshots ever since Halo 3 came out. From then on, people have been trying to find new and imaginitive ways, but over the years, I can saftly say we found everything we can do with a gravity hammer.

Effects used: It seems as you swung the gravity hammer, and the result of the dark person may just be a dark room, or maybe a combination with a gernade. However, this effect has been done several times before, and it may look cool, but it's old.

Camera Angle: I do like the camera angle. The player is directly in the center with the blue mist swirling around it. To me, it looks like he's looking at a 3-D map of our galaxy. Nearly all the the screenshot was covered but textured color, which was also a plus.

Style: Dark screenshots are always a source of mystery and fanaticism. For some reason, they mostly always end up good when the maker has even a basic knowledge of how to make screenshots. You did well with sticking with 3 colors: white, black, and blue. Anything more than that on dark screenshots wouldn't be a good thing. I think the shoulder pads should have been switched to one of those colors though.

Lighting: There's not much to say when it comes to lighting. It's lit well because of the effect and the camera angle. Gravity hammer shots rarely require skill when it comes to lighting.

Blending: The brown shoulder pads ruined the blend from black (around the player), to white (the player). Other than that, the blue blends well with the black in the backround, except in the areas where there is no blue, for obvious reasons.

Overall Presentation: It was a pretty standard gravity hammer shot. You do demenstrate a moderate knowledge when it comes to making screenshots. If you make more, I do suggest finding new ways to make pictures so people aren't turned away from it's unoriginality.

I give your screenshot a rating of: 5/10

 

Kittuns you have to understand, I'm not trying to be mean, but you must admit that the screenshot you presented took little skill to acomplish.

However, when I wrote that I was tired, just recieved some bad news, and was faced with a long day at school. I probably overdid it a bit, so I'm sorry.

 

I disagree, I take pride in the fact that nearly half of my screenshots aren't staged. It is quite possible to take an awesome screenshot. This is the most recent one I took on a slayers game on snowbound:



I like the challenge of finding screenshots in matchmaking.

 

Hero's Domain Review for: Halostar317

Screenshot name: "Incarnate" and can be found on page 3.

Originality: Hmm well the lighting is original, but that ends when it comes to the pose. Luckily, it's not the pose that makes the screenshot, it's how you portray it. You did this well.

Effects used: Although it's obvious some effects were used, it's hard to distinguish between them. I can only guess that a frag gernade was invovled, but that doesn't explain the orange glow acompanied by the purple flair. That's a good thing that I don't know what you did, because it means others won't either, and the point of a screenshot is to make a person ask "how did he do that?"

Camera Angle: The camera angle was pretty standard: a chest and above shot. This is common among explosion shots because of the brightness invovled with them. It's always the camera angle that decides the colors and lighting of the shot.

Style: I do like the style of this screenshot. It has a single person armed to the teeth, ready to take on the world. This is a good basis for any screenshot.

Lighting: The lighting around the helmet and the back of the head is different from that of the rest of the screenshot. This causes a bit of confusion and and gives it's a sloppy outlook. Also, the pink flair of light jutting out of the screen on the bottom-left was kind of weird as it doesn't fit in with anything else in the shot.

Blending: Good blending is apparent throughout the shot. The orange glow seems to meld with the black and white of the rocket, giving it a rustic appeal. Also, the wall's blending of different colors gives the screenshot some depth.

Overall Presentation: A good screenshot: it isn't great but deffenatly not the work of an ameteur. You did well on the blending and the use of colors. You do show an above-average knowledge of screenshots.

I give your screenshot a rating of: 6/10

 

I don't understand. How did you "get" this stickied? No disprect - if you did then I owe you a great deal, but did you talk to a mod or something?

 

Cool, thanks for the recomendation.