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Good to have a few more Cair Andros shots out there for the history books.

High contrast shots are HARD. You'd think you could just up your contrast and call it a day, but no. You need to keep the depth and detail in your colors clear in every corner of your shot. It's like painting a picture. The barracks didn't come out quite like that here, but I still love this shot.

Older shot, definitely. Liked how the lighting came out and the rich colors, but aside from that, this shot ain't quite doing it for me. The blur is obviously Gaussian and just smears everything it touches. This was also a shot that just didn't need to be 16:9.

I realized a couple months back that I didn't have any good shots of the dome of Pelargir. I realized upon finding this in my folders that I still don't have any good shots of the dome of Pelargir. This one's fine, but nothing more. It's just kinda inoffensive. Bland. Just... fine.

Looking through all these Pelargir shots of mine has taught me that I sometimes make mistakes that any newbie to screenshotting would make. And hey, it's always fine to experiment, but maybe not when it makes me cringe mere months later. Where's the focus of the shot, man? xP

This is the village of Pathu Canas. Don't let the warp name confuse you! Hithrengarth is the name of the castle at Pathu Canas. Was preparing for a tour here on a tight deadline and wondered if I could get a good shot of it. Happy with the result.

Perhaps a bit more direct lighting would've helped the left side, but beyond that, I honestly really like the colors of this shot.

Not much to say on this one. Feels nice and sharp, but the tone is a bit curious.

Belfalas' villages should generally hold up on the server for a good while. It's always a treat to attempt a good shot with them.

This was taken not long after discovering that stormy weather darkened my shadows and clouds in the Bliss version of the time. Made full use of that reintroduced feature carried over from Chocapic.

Took this shot nearly a year ago now. I was testing an editing filter with this one. The colors actually reminded me of the Super Mario Movie promotional poster at the time, curiously, lol

Really basic, but I wanted to try to get a shot of Linhir while it was still in progress since I hadn't been there in a while.

Surprised I took so long to get a shot like this. Could've swore I had taken a shot of theses windmills in the past, but apparently not!

For years, I've wanted to get shots of cities like Dol Amroth from angles where you can see the horizon and the rooftops at the same time. Due to chunk rendering limits (and the limits of my rigs), this is near impossible to do well. The fog helps make this attempt look alright in this case.

I had gotten a shot of this bridge in a Sevy Tour video from 2021, and I wanted to come back to it and do it real justice. It is a very pretty build. Makes for a good test of a shader's global illumination settings as well.

This tower has been the subject of many a screenshot over the years, and I don't blame its photographers one bit. Still, it does make it hard to come up with different styles and angles for it. In this case, I felt that the warm morning lighting went well with the fog surrounding the rest of it.

I don't like to stick to one style of screenshot. Instead, I try to vary up my settings and editing from time to time to give a wide range of styles. In this case, I was definitely going for the moody, dark atmosphere.

Er, not much to say on this one. I liked how the clouds go with this one. Been a while since I did a silhouette shot.

Lil' basic, but I liked it. :P

My third version of a shot from this angle. I didn't expect to get a good shot from this angle, but the fog, cloud shadows, and varying tones really made this version stand out.