Comments on: In-Game Photography: A New Pastime For Gamers?

By: grimgriefer

grimgriefer — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Actually a lot of games (But mainly through PC version configurations) allow players to change many settings that can imitate all the nifty settings on a high end DSLR. These may include the Aspect Ratio, Depth of Field, Field of View, Contrast, Brightness, HDR etc…

By: dtribby photography

dtribby photography — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:32:00 +0000

I’d feel better about this article if it were a joke. Come on these people aren’t artists, the game designers are. Take a snapshot of another photographers work and try to pass it off as art and you’ll hear from their lawyer..

By: martin melnick

martin melnick — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:03:00 +0000

That would be like comparing the entire world and known universe to the scale of a very directed video game. Even open world games like mmorpgs aren’t comparable in scale and variation to the world in which we live. This making the journalist photographer in the ‘real’ world responsible for noticing when these seemingly infinite possible combinations of light and composition are at a photo worthy point. Video games are too directed in my opinion. That isn’t to say there isn’t value in the composition at all, but come on, it’s like calling Poke’mon Snap a photographers practice tool.

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:58:00 +0000

My photo teacher would always bag on people who would take shots of graffiti, because they are taking the artists true credit and just showing it in a different medium. I think this is the same type of thing

By: Fred L

Fred L — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:10:00 +0000

Isn’t that like saying that street photographers and journalists only account for composition as the lighting and production design has already been made and decided by the environment?

By: Vlad Dodan

Vlad Dodan — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:10:00 +0000

Short answer is … no! All that has been done before , to death. As long as I`m expanding my imagination with a good game, it`s no harm in having a passion within a passion.

Hobby-ception, if you`d allow me that licence.

By: Julian Jones

Julian Jones — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Yea, I use Forza’s photography application as well.

By: Chris Popely

Chris Popely — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:34:00 +0000

I think the fact you play Second Life just about says it all.

By: Josh Campbell

Josh Campbell — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:47:00 +0000

The Forza series has a great photo feature. Any car fan/photographer should check it out!

By: Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Please don’t call this sort of thing photography. It’s really just the artistic equivalent of auto-tune.

At best it could be described as a form of digital art, but surely any self respecting artist, with even an ounce of craft, would create their images from scratch?

But hey, I’m sure that the point and click generation, happy in its endless cycle of thoughtless, unskilled repetition, will find the whole thing really empowering.