Hero's Domain - Get your Screenshot Professionally Rated

Hero · 03-20-2009

Hero's Domain
Screenshot Reviews
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Hello members of ForgeHub! Welcome to my review station on these forums. Here I will allow you to submit your screenshots for rating by me, which you then may display on your thread that houses your screenshots if you so choose. Please note that I am a bit stricter than most you will find, and it takes a fair amount of skill to get me impressed. I grade on a scale from one to ten, one being you must have taken a picture of a wall, ten being I beleive you are worthy of recognition by bungie and immediatly be added to their favorites. Come to this thread expecting CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, because with each screenshot, I will list atleast one thing that I didn't like about it. Don't fret - no screenshot is perfect and all screenshots in existance have atleast one problem with them.

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Process to get YOUR Screenshot Reviewed

NOTE: NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS, WAITING LIST FULL

1. Capture a screenshot using halo 3 and save it to your fileshare (you don't have too, but it makes it easier). Go to Bungie.net and go to your profile and save the picture. Upload it to a website like Photobucket.com to put it in a format that is compatible with ForgeHub. Use [IMG] [/IMG] to put your picture here on this thread.

2. Submit the following application to have your screenshot rated. NOTE: YOUR SCREENSHOT WILL BE IGNORED IF YOU DON'T FILL OUT THIS APPLICATION:

Screenshot title:
Map:
Date screenshot was taken (not required):
Was your screenshot staged:
Are you the sole creater of this screenshot:
Do you agree not to flame my rating:
Will you be patient with me to rate you:
Gamtertag:

3. Patiently wait for me to rate your screenshot. You may submit one screenshot at a time because of the length of my reviews.

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I will rate your screenshot on the following:

+ Originality
+ Effects used
+ Camera angle
+ Style
+ Lighting
+ Blending
+ Overal presentation

Waiting List:
-Mero90
-AceOfSpades0707
-Letol
-Leeum
-vitorassoBR
-Zombiez r us
-Okage4

This is the template on which I will review your screenshot:

Hero's Domain Review for:

Screenshot name:

Originality:

Effects used:

Camera Angle:

Style:

Lighting:

Blending:

Overall Presentation:

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My reviews
Here I will list all the people I have reviewed, along with each indivdual screenshot review that player has submitted. The names are in alphabetical order, and not to be confused on which ones I favor the most. I will only say the player's name, the screenshot's name, what I rated it, and what page my full length review is on.

AceOfSpades0707
"Ring" pg. 2
4/10

ATacoBell
"Water" pg. 7
5/10

Black Theorem
"Meteor Shower" pg. 6
5/10

Blue Pariot
"The Final Countdown" pg. 5
7/10

Boss of OWNAGE
"Electric Vines" pg. 1
7/10

"Trapped Recon" pg. 4
6/10

DC killa
"The Infection" pg. 5
9/10

DimmestBread
"Contrast" pg. 9
4/10

InfectedByFear
"The Second Sun" pg. 2
6/10

Halo Orlando
Darkened View" pg. 9
6/10

Halostar317
"Incarnate" pg. 8
6/10

NYYanks33
"Untitled" pg. 10
5/10

X1BLACKOUT1X
"Resultant" pg 3
3/10

Boss of OWNAGE · 03-20-2009

http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-s...tml#post767866

It's my Picture thread. It's easier then getting all the links.

*Sigh*
Ok since your rules came out.

Screenshot title: Electric Vines
Map: Sandbox
Date screenshot was taken (not required): 3/08/09
Was your screenshot staged: Yes
Are you the sole creater of this screenshot: Yes
Do you agree not to flame my rating: Yes
Will you be patient with me to rate you: Yes
Gamertag: Boss of METAL

AceOfSpades · 03-20-2009

Name: Ring
Staged: Yes
I am sole creator
Yes I agree... it's just a rating
Yes I will be patient... no hurry
AceOfSpades0707

I fixed it with new rules

Silva Sniper · 03-20-2009

This should be moved to the screenshot disscusion.Anyways how do you rate pics from your point of view.I don't have any pics right
now though

Hero · 03-20-2009

Well if you would have let me finish writing my thread, then maybe you would have learned. I rate from what you say - MY point of view. I rate in the ways I state in my first post.

Boss your screenshot has been sumbitted for review and I will write one for it asap. Come back later tonight to see your review.

Hero's Domain Review for: Boss of OWNAGE

Screenshot name: "Electric Vines" and can be found on page 1.

Originality: I have yet to see a screenshot like this before. Sandbox, being a new map that we have barely yet to realize the potential of, was a good choice on your part. The few screenshots I have seen from Sandbox fail to utilize the map like you have, most doing things they could've acomplished on Foundry.

Effects used: Not knowing the map Sandbox very well, I hesitantly believe that no effects were used. That is alright however, because it doesn't seem to take away from the gravity of the screenshot.

Camera Angle: This is part that turned me off to your screenshot the most. The simple "chest and above" angle has been used so many times that I am beginning to loathe it. I cannot, however, find a way to my knowledge to impove the camera angle. Unfortunatly with your picture, you were very limited to what you could've done with your angle.

Style: I mildly enjoyed where you went with in this picture. Recon pictures are always hard to obtain and it's always a pleasure seeing them. I think you could have picked a better secondary wepaon though. I find gravity hammers bulky, and distract from what your suppose to be focusing on, whatever that may be. Because I have seen few pictures from Sandbox, it is hard for me to judge whether this is a screenshot that is easily recreated or takes a bit more skill to do. This is a result of my own ignorance however, and will not be marked away from your score.

Lighting: The little beams of light scratching across the picture amused me to no end. The geometric design almost can have a deeper meaning to it signifying how life is never-ending or something similar, but I digress. The only problem I have with the lighting is the beam of light that is in front of the player. It's brightness blocks the view of some of the person, and seems to blur the area it surrounds. I personally try my best not to but things brighter than the person in front of him.

Blending: I like the blending of this screenshot because it seems as if the lines never stop, even if you were to see what lies off the picture. The black armor matches the black void beyond the beams which was also a plus. Matching colors always show commitment to getting the best shot you can. The only blotches in the blending I could find is when the beams of light distorted his armor, as I said before.

Overall Presentation: It was an amusing screenshot worthy of some polite applause. It was original and inventive, which increased my interest. The simple camera angle though gave the impression that it would be easily recreated by anyone who had atleast some basic knowledge of how to take screenshots. You do, however, demenstrate an intermediate skill when it comes to taking screenshots. Keep making more, for you are talented at it.

I give your screenshot a rating of: 7/10

Boss of OWNAGE · 03-20-2009

Thanks for the Positive review, I know my pic. could have been a lot better. The reason I had a Grav. Hammer was I was also trying the "Wave effect" And didn't get another weapon before I took the picture. The angle I used was because I was on a wall and didn't want it in the picture. If your Interested, I have a Picture that uses the same effect, I think you would enjoy it.

Pic:

Screenshot title: Trapped Recon
Map: Sandbox
Date screenshot was taken (not required): 3/08/09
Was your screenshot staged: Yes
Are you the sole creater of this screenshot: Yes
Do you agree not to flame my rating: Yes
Will you be patient with me to rate you: Yes
Gamertag: Boss of METAL

InfectedByFear · 03-20-2009

The Second Sun
Blackout
Yes
No, someone helped
You know best
I'm not going anywhere
InfectedByFear

X1BLACKOUT1X · 03-20-2009

Screenshot title:Resultant
Map:Orbital
Date screenshot was taken (not required):3/19/09
Was your screenshot staged:Yes
Are you the sole creater of this screenshot:Yes
Do you agree not to flame my rating:Yes
Will you be patient with me to rate you:Yes
Gamtertag:X1 BLACKOUT 1X

loph12 · 03-20-2009

WHAT? 7/10 for electric vines! I'm sorry but that is ridiculous. That screenshot deserved a much better rating. At least 8.5/10. And how are you a 'Professional'? Is there a Halo 3 screenshot league?

Hero · 03-20-2009

Loph, the author is satisfied with my review, why can't you?

Blackout and infected, you've been accepted and put on the waiting list.

Boss, you too have been put on the waiting list, but behind the others because I just reviewed you.